Description
Book SynopsisLeading historians discuss the roles of the Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. militaries in mapping the Greater Southwest from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries.
Trade Review"Mapping and Empire provides a fascinating investigation into the role of cartography in empire building, both as a method of delineating territorial holdings and of maintaining control over them. This book is a major contribution both to American history as a whole and to the cartographic history of the Greater Southwest." -- Maeve Tynan, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction (Richard V. Francaviglia)
- 1. Spanish Maritime Charting of the Gulf of Mexico and the California Coast (W. Michael Mathes)
- 2. Spanish Military Engineers in the New World before 1750 (David Buisseret)
- 3. Spanish Military Mapping of the Northern Borderlands after 1750 (Dennis Reinhartz)
- 4. U.S. Army Military Mapping of the American Southwest during the Nineteenth Century (Ralph E. Ehrenberg)
- 5. Henry Washington Benham: A U.S. Army Engineer’s View of the U.S.-Mexican War (Gerald D. Saxon)
- 6. Trabajos Desconocidos, Ingenieros Olvidados: Unknown Works and Forgotten Engineers of the Mexican Boundary Commission (Paula Rebert)
- 7. Soldier-Engineers in the Geographic Understanding of the Southwestern Frontier—An Afterthought (John R. Hébert)
- List of Contributors
