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Mapping an Empire

Matthew H. Edney
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Author : Matthew H. Edney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226184869

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In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities. "There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, Mapping an Empire sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism."—D. Graham Burnett, Times Literary Supplement "Mapping an Empire is undoubtedly a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on science and empire, and a work which deserves to stimulate a great deal of fresh thinking and informed research."—David Arnold, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This case study offers broadly applicable insights into the relationship between ideology, technology and politics. . . . Carefully read, this is a tale of irony about wishful thinking and the limits of knowledge."—Publishers Weekly

The New Map of Empire

S. Max Edelson
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Author : S. Max Edelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674978997

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The New Map of Empire by S. Max Edelson Pdf

In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions before the Revolution.

Maps of Empire

Kyle Wanberg
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Author : Kyle Wanberg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487534950

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During the political upheavals of the mid-twentieth century, as imperialism was unraveling on a grand scale, writers from colonized and occupied spaces questioned the necessity and ethics of their histories. As empire "wrote back" to the self-ordained centres of the world, modes of representation underwent a transformation. Exploring novels and diverse forms of literature from regions in West Africa, the Middle East, and Indigenous America, Maps of Empire considers how writers struggle with the unstable boundaries generated by colonial projects and their dissolution. The literary spaces covered in the book form imaginary states or reimagine actual cartographies and identities sanctioned under empire. The works examined in Maps of Empire, through their inner representations and their outer histories of reception, inspire and provoke us to reconsider boundaries.

The New Map of Empire

S. Max Edelson
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Author : S. Max Edelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674972117

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The New Map of Empire by S. Max Edelson Pdf

In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions before the Revolution.

Surveyors of Empire

Stephen J. Hornsby
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Author : Stephen J. Hornsby
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773587342

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Surveyors of Empire by Stephen J. Hornsby Pdf

Using research from both sides of the Atlantic, Stephen Hornsby examines the development of British military cartography in North America during and after the Seven Years War, as well as advancements in military and scientific equipment used in surveying. At the same time, he follows the land speculation of two leading surveyors, Samuel Holland and J.F.W. Des Barres, and the publication history of The Atlantic Neptune. Richly illustrated with images from The Atlantic Neptune and earlier maps, Surveyors of Empire is an insightful account of the relationship between science and imperialism, and the British shaping of the Atlantic world.

Off The Map

Chellis Glendinning
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Author : Chellis Glendinning
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1550923323

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Off The Map by Chellis Glendinning Pdf

Today's global economy is yesterday's empire. Imperialism in whatever guise is the same through time, penetrating every area of our lives, affecting whole cultures as well as the deep core of individuals. And maps have been the tools of empire, defining the territory to be exploited. Off The Map is a unique exploration of globalization. Part history, part autobiography, and part fiction, it weaves together the history of the last 300 years of Western imperialism, the author's own story of sexual abuse in the 1950s, and a present-day horseback ride through the recently colonized Chicano world of New Mexico. The author takes us with her as she travels 'off the map' through the ancestral lands of her friend and traveling companion Snowflake Martinez, describing the Chicano people's struggle to survive the onslaught of a globalized world, and the ways in which that struggle has been replicated countless times. In a different voice, she reveals scenes from her childhood, her grandparents adorning themselves with artifacts symbolic of the British Empire, and her medical doctor father raping both her and her brother for twelve years. The political is deeply personal. And hope, according to Glendinning, resides in our creating new maps that chart worlds fashioned by love and respect for community, place and nature. "A dazzling contribution to the critical study of globalization (qua imperialism)." -- Devon Peña, author of Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics: Subversive Kin

Maps for Empire

British Library,Great Britain. War Office
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Author : British Library,Great Britain. War Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005188839

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Maps for Empire by British Library,Great Britain. War Office Pdf

This comprehensive listing of the maps produced by the Intelligence Department of the War Office, between 1881 (when the Department's output started to be numbered in sequence) and 1905. The maps reveal the preoccupations of the government during the height of the British Empire.

Maps of Empire

Kyle Wanberg
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Author : Kyle Wanberg
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487506841

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Maps of Empire examines how literature was affected by the decay and break up of old models of imperial administration in the mid-twentieth century.

The Imperial Map

James R. Akerman
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Author : James R. Akerman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226010762

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Maps from virtually every culture and period convey our tendency to see our communities as the centre of the world (if not the universe) and, by implication, as superior to anything beyond our boundaries. This study examines how cartography has been used to prop up a variety of imperialist enterprises.

Mapping Europe's Borderlands

Steven Seegel
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Author : Steven Seegel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226744254

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The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and they need to be interpreted as expressions of power and knowledge, as Steven Seegel makes clear in his impressive and important new book. Mapping Europe’s Borderlands takes the familiar problems of state and nation building in eastern Europe and presents them through an entirely new prism, that of cartography and cartographers. Drawing from sources in eleven languages, including military, historical-pedagogical, and ethnographic maps, as well as geographic texts and related cartographic literature, Seegel explores the role of maps and mapmakers in the East Central European borderlands from the Enlightenment to the Treaty of Versailles. For example, Seegel explains how Russia used cartography in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars and, later, formed its geography society as a cover for gathering intelligence. He also explains the importance of maps to the formation of identities and institutions in Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania, as well as in Russia. Seegel concludes with a consideration of the impact of cartographers’ regional and socioeconomic backgrounds, educations, families, career options, and available language choices.

Plundered Empire

Michael Greenhalgh
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Author : Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004405479

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Plundered Empire by Michael Greenhalgh Pdf

Providing extensive documentation, the book examines the mechanics, trials and tribulations of plundering the Ottoman East for private and public collections in Europe. It helps document the continuing debate about the ethics of museum collections.

History of the World in Maps

Times Atlases
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Author : Times Atlases
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Historical geography
ISBN : 0008147795

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History of the World in Maps by Times Atlases Pdf

From Babylonian tablets to Google Maps, the world has evolved rapidly, along with the ways in which we see it. In this time, cartography has not only kept pace with these changes, but has often driven them. In this beautiful book, over 70 maps give a visual representation of the history of the world.

Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires

Luis Lobo-Guerrero,Laura Lo Presti,Filipe dos Reis
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Author : Luis Lobo-Guerrero,Laura Lo Presti,Filipe dos Reis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538146415

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Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires by Luis Lobo-Guerrero,Laura Lo Presti,Filipe dos Reis Pdf

This volume seeks to collectively explore how maps can be used to understand the making of European empires, how the epistemological practices embedded in them can be approached to understand European imperial space-making, and how maps can be seen as representations of imaginaries of connectivity. Rehearsing mapping’s past and its multifarious relations with European imperial orders is not merely an historical exercise to contribute to a global history of cartography. What binds the several interventions is rather an awareness that looking at a particular moment of the past with composite methodologies and interdisciplinary gazes may harbour potential discoveries on the context-embedded relations between mapping, connectivity, and European empire to which we are not yet attuned. By exploring the imaginaries of the world in the mapping of Western modern empires, the book also links to the burgeoning literature on the history of international relations and empire. The emphasis on empires serves here as an important corrigendum for IR’s state centrism and Eurocentrism and contributes to further erode the myth of Westphalia.

King of Thorns

Mark Lawrence
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Author : Mark Lawrence
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101581261

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In book two of the Broken Empire trilogy, the boy who would be king has gained the throne—but the crown is a heavy weight to bear... At age nine, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath vowed to avenge his slaughtered mother and brother—and to punish his father for not doing so. At fifteen, he began to fulfill that vow. Now, at eighteen, he must fight for what he has taken by torture and treachery. Haunted by the pain of his past, and plagued by nightmares of the atrocities he has committed, King Jorg is filled with rage. And even as his need for revenge continues to consume him, an overwhelming enemy force marches on his castle. Jorg knows that he cannot win a fair fight. But he has found a long-hidden cache of ancient artifacts. Some might call them magic. Jorg is not certain—all he knows is that their secrets can be put to terrible use in the coming battle...

The Void War

D. j. Holmes
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Author : D. j. Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520190522

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The Void War by D. j. Holmes Pdf

It's the year 2465, two hundred years since the stars were opened to humanity by the invention of the shift drive. So began the First Interstellar Expansion Era, catapulting humanity into a deadly race for the limited resources of navigable space. Now tensions between the human nations are threatening to boil over into open hostility. Into this maelstrom steps the exiled Commander James Somerville of the Royal Space Navy. Banished from London to the survey ship HMS Drake he is about to make a discovery that may change his fortunes and throw Britain into a deadly war with its closest rival. The Void War is a military science fiction novel and first book by new author D. J. Holmes