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

Series: Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography: Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009Description: viii, 367 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.ISBN: 9780226010762 (hbk); 0226010767 (hbk).Subject(s): Cartography -- History | Akerman, James RDDC classification: 912.09
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.