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Includes: Unpacking the Meaning of Maps, Power, & Boundaries; The Legacy of Major Sebastian Bauman’s Map of the Siege of Yorktown; Mapping Old & New Empires in the Early U.S.; Cherokee Boundaries; Cherokee Territoriality, Anglo-Amer. Surveying, & the Creation of Borders in the Early 19th-Cent. West; Chickasaw & Cherokee Resistance to Amer. Colonization, 1785-1816; Hydrography, Natural History, & the Sea in the 19th Cent.; William Darby’s “A Map of the State of Louisiana” & the Extension of Amer, Sovereignty over the “Neutral Ground” in the Louisiana-Texas Borderland, 1806-1819; Initiating the World’s Longest Unfortified Boundary; Mapping Inequality, Resistance, & Solutions in Early National Phila.. Illus.
Price: $45.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Imprint: The American Philosophical Society Press
Series: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Publication Date:
01 January 2021
Trim Size: 10.00 X 6.75 in
ISBN: 9781606181041
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography
"The Power of Maps and The Politics of Borders will engage a range of disciplinary audiences, including historians, geographers, cartographers, and anthropologists. Those interested in historical maps will enjoy its diverse examples of early American cartography...[The] book eloquently traces the essential role of mapping and charting in the formation of the early American republic. The contributors to the collection offer compelling examples of how cartography, technologies, and archives were wielded to advance early American colonial expansion and served to normalize 'the assumption that political space should be tightly defined and delineated.'"