Imperial borderlands : : maps and territory-building in the northern indochinese peninsula (1885-1914) / / by Marie de Rugy, translated by Saskia Brown.

• Superior document: Mapping the past ; Volume 1
• VerfasserIn: Rugy, Marie de,
• TeilnehmendeR: Brown, Saskia,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Mapping the tradition ; Volume 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This book presents a connected history of South-East Asian borderlands, drawing on late nineteenth-century British and French geographical policies and practice. It focuses on the 'scramble' in Asia, when, in 1885, the British Raj incorporated Upper Burma and the French created a Protectorate in Annam-Tonkin, the Northern part of present-day Vietnam. Fought over by the imperial states and neighbouring nations, the frontier zones were fashioned and represented not only by the two European powers, but also by the Chinese Empire, the Kingdom of Siam, and the local populations. The counterpoint between the discourses produced and the cartographical practices on the ground, in the longue durée , reveals the interacting processes of territory-building in all their unpredictability. This book is the updated version of the author's Aux confins des empires. Cartes et constructions territoriales dans le nord de la péninsule indochinoise (1885-1914) (Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2018). It is translated by Saskia Brown, an experienced academic translator from French in the humanities and social sciences.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Marie de Rugy -- Copyright page / Marie de Rugy -- Foreword / Matthew H. Edney -- Acknowledgements / Marie de Rugy -- Figures / Marie de Rugy -- Acronyms and Transcription Conventions / Marie de Rugy -- Introduction / Marie de Rugy -- Chapter 1 Connected Histories of Exploration / Marie de Rugy -- Chapter 2 Colonial Geographical Departments and Large-Scale Map-Making Programmes / Marie de Rugy -- Chapter 3 Geographical Institutions: Collaboration, Competition, and Confrontation / Marie de Rugy -- Chapter 4 Triangulation "from the Mountains to the Sea" / Marie de Rugy -- Chapter 5 Consulting the Local Population / Marie de Rugy -- Chapter 6 Using Asian Maps: Borrowings and Reworkings / Marie de Rugy -- Chapter 7 Colonial Roads and Territorial Reconfigurations / Marie de Rugy -- Chapter 8 Locating, Demarcating, and Crossing the Border / Marie de Rugy -- Chapter 9 Logics of Rule and Territorial Anomalies / Marie de Rugy -- Conclusion / Marie de Rugy -- Bibliography / Marie de Rugy -- Index / Marie de Rugy.