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

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 Protector...

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Superior document:Mapping the past ; Volume 1
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Mapping the tradition ; Volume 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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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.