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Language: en
Pages: 481
Pages: 481
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and
Language: en
Pages: 480
Pages: 480
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-24 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, M
Language: en
Pages: 372
Pages: 372
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-19 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the U
Language: en
Pages: 378
Pages: 378
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-05 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Using research from both sides of the Atlantic, Stephen Hornsby examines the development of British military cartography in North America during and after the S
Language: en
Pages: 385
Pages: 385
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Maps from virtually every culture and period convey our tendency to see our communities as the centre of the world (if not the universe) and, by implication, as