{"product_id":"mapping-and-empire-9780292726161","title":"Mapping and Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeading 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Illustrations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction (Richard V. Francaviglia) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Spanish Maritime Charting of the Gulf of Mexico and the California Coast (W. Michael Mathes) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. Spanish Military Engineers in the New World before 1750 (David Buisseret) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. Spanish Military Mapping of the Northern Borderlands after 1750 (Dennis Reinhartz) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. U.S. Army Military Mapping of the American Southwest during the Nineteenth Century (Ralph E. Ehrenberg) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. Henry Washington Benham: A U.S. Army Engineer’s View of the U.S.-Mexican War (Gerald D. Saxon) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6. Trabajos Desconocidos, Ingenieros Olvidados: Unknown Works and Forgotten Engineers of the Mexican Boundary Commission (Paula Rebert) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 7. Soldier-Engineers in the Geographic Understanding of the Southwestern Frontier—An Afterthought (John R. Hébert) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Contributors \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MU - University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53733827936599,"sku":"9780292726161","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mapping-and-empire-9780292726161","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}