Mapping an Empire by Matthew Edney
In this history of the British surveys of India, focusing especially on the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS) understaken by the British East India Company, the author relates how imperial Britain employed modern scientific survey techniques not only to create and define the spacial inmage of its Indian empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities as triumphs of liberal, rational science bringing "Civilisation" to irrational, mystical and despotic Indians. The reshaping of cartographic technologies in Europe into their modern form played a key role in the use of the GTS as an instrument of British cartographic control over India. In analyzing this reconfiguration, the author undertakes a detailed critical analysis of the foundations of modern cartography.
Edney, Matthew H.: - Matthew H. Edney is Osher Professor in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine. He is the author of Cartography: The Ideal and Its History and Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226184876 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226184870 |
| Title | Mapping an Empire |
| Author | Matthew Edney |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 1997-09-02 |
| Number of pages | 474 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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