Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea: 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2018

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This book comprises 17 chapters derived from new research papers presented at the 7th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, held in Oxford from 13 to 15 September 2018 and jointly organized by the ICA Commission on Topographic Mapping and the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The overall conference theme was ‘Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea’. The book presents a breadth of original research undertaken by internationally recognized authors in the field of historical cartography and offers a significant contribution to the development of this growing field and to many interdisciplinary aspects of geography, history and the geographic information sciences. It is intended for researchers, teachers, postgraduate students, map librarians and archivists. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Sketching Layers in Japan: Mineral Wealth, Geo-bodies and Imperial Territory (Edward Boyle)....Pages 3-22 Putting America’s First Empire on the Map: American Early Efforts to Map the Philippine Islands (Eric H. Losang)....Pages 23-36 The Exploration and Survey of the Outlying Islands of the Dutch East Indies (Ferjan J. Ormeling)....Pages 37-59 A View from Inside: Chinese Mapping of the World Against the Backdrop of Colonial Experience (Laura Pflug)....Pages 61-74 Front Matter ....Pages 75-75 French Cartographic Services in the Levant: Putting Syria and Lebanon on the Map of the Empire (Louis Le Douarin)....Pages 77-99 Surveying Empires: Archaeologies of Colonial Cartography and the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (Keith D. Lilley)....Pages 101-120 War Cartography in the Survey of India, 1920–1946 (Oyndrila Sarkar)....Pages 121-139 Front Matter ....Pages 141-141 Red Star to Red Lion: The Soviet Military Mapping of Oxford (John Davies, Alexander James Kent)....Pages 143-158 Maps Against Imperialism: Frank Horrabin and Alexander Radó’s Atlases in the Interwar Period (Gilles Palsky)....Pages 159-176 Empire as Spectacle: Harmsworth’s Atlas of the World and Pictorial Gazetteer with an Atlas of the Great War (Peter Vujakovic)....Pages 177-193 Front Matter ....Pages 195-195 Mapping Changes in Ottoman-Austrian Borders During the Eighteenth Century (Uğur Kurtaran)....Pages 197-205 Lines on the Map: International Boundaries (Rose Mitchell)....Pages 207-226 Front Matter ....Pages 227-227 German Names in the Kilimanjaro Region (Wolfgang Crom)....Pages 229-246 The French Map of Beirut (1936) (Jack Keilo)....Pages 247-259 Front Matter ....Pages 261-261 Military or Missionary Map? The First Topographic Map of Northern New Spain (1725–1729) (Mirela Altić)....Pages 263-285 ‘Dead on Arrival’: The Unused Cartographic Legacy of Carl Friedrich Reimer (Jeroen Bos)....Pages 287-307 Head-Hunters, Cannibals and Pirates: Surveying in the 1960s (Roy Wood)....Pages 309-321