Mapping and Empire : : Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier / / ed. by Gerald D. Saxon, Dennis Reinhartz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Buisseret, David,; Ehrenberg, Ralph E.,; Francaviglia, Richard V.,; Hébert, John R.,; Mathes, W. Michael,; Rebert, Paula,; Reinhartz, Dennis,; Saxon, D. Gerald,
• HerausgeberIn: Reinhartz, Dennis,; Saxon, Gerald D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2010]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• One. Spanish Maritime Charting of the Gulf of Mexico and the California Coast
• Two. Spanish Military Engineers in the New World before 1750
• Three. Spanish Military Mapping of the Northern Borderlands after 1750
• Four. U.S. Army Military Mapping of the American Southwest during the Nineteenth Century
• Five. Henry Washington Benham: A U.S. Army Engineer’s View of the U.S.-Mexican War
• Six. Trabajos Desconocidos, Ingenieros Olvidados: Unknown Works and Forgotten Engineers of the Mexican Boundary Commission
• Seven. Soldier-Engineers in the Geographic Understanding of the Southwestern Frontier: An Afterthought
• Contributors
• Index