The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders
Papers from the Conference Held at the American Philosophical Society, October 2019, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 110, Part 4)
Will be published approx. on 1. January 2021
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256 pages
978-1-60618-104-1 (ISBN)
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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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 254 mm
Width: 171 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-60618-104-1 (9781606181041)
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American Philosophical Society