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1 online resource (xv, 458 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-436) and index. |
Contents |
""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations and Maps""; ""List of Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Note on East India Company Coinage""; ""Places Mentioned in the Text: Southern India and Northern India""; ""Chronology of Events and the Expansion of the East India Company""; ""Chapter One. The Ideologies and Practices of Mapping and Imperialism""; ""Part One: The Enlightenment Construction of Geographical Knowledge""; ""Chapter Two. Observation and Representation""; ""Chapter Three. Surveying and Mapmaking""; ""Part Two: Institutional Structures Andcartographic Anarchy"" |
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""Chapter Four. Structural Constraints of the East India Company's Administration""""Chapter Five. Cartographic Anarchy and System in Madras, 1790-1810""; ""Part Three: The Great Trigonometrical Survey and Cartographic System""; ""Chapter Six. Institutions for Mapping All of British India, 1814-23""; ""Chapter Seven. Triangulation, the Cartographic Panacea, 1825-32""; ""Chapter Eight. The Final Compromise: Triangulation and Archive, 1831-43""; ""Part Four: Cartography, Science, and there Representation of Empire""; ""Chapter Nine. Scientific Practice: Incorporating the Rationality of Empire"" |
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""Chapter Ten. Cartographic Practice: Inscribing an Imperial Space""""Biographical Notes""; ""Notes""; ""Archival Sources and Bibliography""; ""Unpublished Primary Sources, by Archive""; ""Published Primary Sources""; ""Secondary Sources Relating to the British Surveys in India""; ""Principal Secondary Sources""; ""Index"" |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
East India Company -- History.
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East India Company. |
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History. |
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East India Company (Great Britain) -- History. |
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Cartography -- India -- History.
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Cartography. |
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India. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Edney, Matthew H. Mapping an empire. Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997 0226184870 (DLC) 96039703 (OCoLC)36001212 |
ISBN |
0226184862 (electronic book) |
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9780226184869 (electronic book) |
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0226184870 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226184889 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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