Title & Author:

The imperial map : cartography and the mastery of empire / edited by James R. Akerman.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Description:

viii, 367 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 26 cm.

Series:

The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-351) and index.
The irony of imperial mapping / Matthew H. Edney -- "Exalted and glorified to the ends of the earth" : imperial maps and Christian spaces in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Rusian Siberia / Valerie A. Kivelson -- Contending cartographic claims? : the Qing empire in Manchu, Chinese, and European maps / Laura Hostetler -- The confines of the colony : boundaries, ethnographic landscapes, and imperial cartography in Iberoamerica / Neil Safier -- Hydrographic discipline among the navigators : charting an "empire of commerce and science" in the nineteenth-century Pacific / D. Graham Burnett -- The cartography of the fourth estate : mapping the new imperialism in British and French newspapers, 1875-1925 / Michael Heffernan.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
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Publisher description
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ISBN:

9780226010762 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0226010767 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Cartography History.
Cartographie Histoire.
74.31 history of cartography.
Cartography
Imperialismus
Kartografie
Imperialism.
Political aspects.
Administrative aspects.
Geography.
History.

Form/genre:

History
History (form)
Lectures (form)

Added entries:

Akerman, James R.
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261015
Call No.: BIB 191975
Status: Available