Imperial borderlands : maps and territory-building in the northern Indochinese peninsula (1885-1914) /

"This book presents a connected history of South-East Asian borderlands, drawing on late nineteenth-century British and French geographical policies and practice at the margins of their empires. It focuses on the 'scramble' in Asia, when the British Raj incorporated Upper Burma (1885)...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rugy, Marie de (Autor)
Otros Autores: Brown, Saskia (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Colección:Mapping the past ; v. 1.
Temas:
1700-1799
Cartography > History > 18th century.
Cartographie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Cartography.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures
  • Acronyms and Transcription Conventions
  • Introduction
  • 1 A History of Maps and Territories
  • 2 Confines, Margins, Frontiers: Space as an Object
  • 3 Connecting Empires
  • Chapter 1 Connected Histories of Exploration
  • 1 A Well-Stocked Colonial Library with a Long History
  • 2 Geographies of Exploration and Travel Narratives before 1885
  • 3 Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building after 1885
  • Chapter 2 Colonial Geographical Departments and Large-Scale Map-Making Programmes
  • 1 The Creation of Colonial Geographical Departments
  • 2 Systematic Mapping of the Whole Territory: A Qualitative Advance?
  • 3 Meeting the Challenge of Limited Staff, Budgets and Material
  • Chapter 3 Geographical Institutions: Collaboration, Competition, and Confrontation
  • 1 Rivalry and Cooperation between Map-Makers
  • 2 The Circulation and Uses of Maps
  • Chapter 4 Triangulation "from the Mountains to the Sea"
  • 1 Tough Working Conditions and a Dangerous Terrain
  • 2 Topographers and Geodetic Surveyors in Action: Adapting Standard Practice
  • 3 Human Settlements and Dwellings: A Map-Maker's Headache
  • Chapter 5 Consulting the Local Population
  • 1 The Role of Intelligence: Local Information Sources during the Conquest
  • 2 Place Names, the Impossible Task
  • Chapter 6 Using Asian Maps: Borrowings and Reworkings
  • 1 Checking Historical Borders
  • Chapter 7 Colonial Roads and Territorial Reconfigurations
  • 1 Travelling across the Territory
  • 2 The Margins Reconfigured by Roads
  • Chapter 8 Locating, Demarcating, and Crossing the Border
  • 1 Theoretical Variations
  • 2 Boundary Marking in Practice
  • 3 Border Controls and Infringements
  • Chapter 9 Logics of Rule and Territorial Anomalies
  • 1 The Specific Status of the Frontier Provinces
  • 2 Unstable Territorial Divisions
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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