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Edited by James R. Akerman

The Imperial Map

Cartography and the Mastery of Empire

384 pages, 12 color plates, 100 halftones  7 x 10  © 2008
Series: The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography

Cloth $60.00

ISBN: 9780226010762   Published March 2009

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION
JAMES R. AKERMAN

CHAPTER ONE
The Irony of Imperial Mapping
MATTHEW H. EDNEY

CHAPTER TWO
“Exalted and Glorified to the Ends of the Earth”: Imperial Maps and Christian Spaces in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Russian Siberia
VALERIE A. KIVELSON

CHAPTER THREE
Contending Cartographic Claims? The Qing Empire in Manchu, Chinese, and European Maps
LAURA HOSTETLER

CHAPTER FOUR
The Confines of the Colony: Boundaries, Ethnographic Landscapes, and Imperial Cartography in Iberoamerica
NEIL SAFIER

CHAPTER FIVE
Hydrographic Discipline among the Navigators: Charting an “Empire of Science and Commerce” in the Nineteenth-Century Pacific
D. GRAHAM BURNETT

CHAPTER SIX
The Cartography of the Fourth Estate: Mapping the New Imperialism in British and French Newspapers, 1875–1925
MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

Notes
Contributors
Index
Subjects



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