[PDF.99vm] Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier

Mapping and Empire: Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier

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 | #5298425 in Books |  2014-12-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.75 x6.00l,1.12 | File type: PDF | 232 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Spanish, Mexican, and American explorer-soliders of the Southwest|By Henry Berry|Spanish, Mexican, and American military engineers played an especially important role in mapping the area of the American Southwest along the U.S.-Mexican border. Not only was this area sparsely populated and rugged, but marking boundaries was a part of the broader contest and eventual war between| |"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

From the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries, Spain, then Mexico, and finally the United States took ownership of the land from the Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico to the Pacific Coast of Alta and Baja California—today's American Southwest. Each country faced the challenge of holding on to territory that was poorly known and sparsely settled, and each responded by sending out military mapping expeditions to set boundaries and chart topographical featur...

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