The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders : papers from the conference held at the American Philosophical Society, October 2019 / edited by the American Philosophical Society ; [introduction by Nicholas Gliserman ; contributors, George Gallwey, Nicholas Gliserman [and ten others]].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Gliserman, Nicholas, writer of introduction, contributor.

Gallwey, George, contributor.

American Philosophical Society, host institution, editor.

Conference Name:

The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders (Conference) (2019 : American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), author, issuing body.

Series:

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society ; 0065-9746 v. 110, pt. 4.

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge, 0065-9746 ; volume 110, part 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography.

Cartography--History.

History.

Human geography--Maps.

Human geography.

Historical geography.

North America.

North America--Maps.

North America--Maps--Early works to 1800.

North America--Historical geography--Maps.

Genre:

Maps.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vii, 242 pages : illustrations, maps (mostly color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] : American Philosophical Society Press, [2021]

Summary:

This book is a collection of papers delivered at the conference which was "held in conjunction with the APS Museum's exhibit, Mapping a Nation: Shaping the Early American Republic, which traces the creation and use of maps from the mid-eighteenth century through the early republic to show the different ways in which maps produced and extended the physical, political, and ideological boundaries of the new nation while creating and reinforcing structural inequalities." Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: Unpacking the meaning of maps, power, and boundaries

"Suitable for the parlor of an American": the legacy of Major Sebastian Bauman's Map of the Siege of Yorktown

Albert Gallatin, mapping old and new empires in the early United States

Thinking multidimensionally: Cherokee boundaries above, below, and beyond

Wielding the power of mapping: Cherokee territoriality, Anglo-American surveying, and the creation of borders in the early nineteenth-century West

Clear boundaries or shared territory: Chickasaw and Cherokee resistance to American colonization, 1785-1816

Finding the history of the world at the bottom of the ocean: hydrography, natural history, and the sea in the nineteenth century

Elusive Henlopen, or the Cape's role in protracting the boundary dispute between Pennsylvania and Maryland

William Darby's A map of the State of Louisiana and the extension of American sovereignty over the "Neutral Ground" in the Louisiana-Texas Borderland, 1806-1819

Archival lines, historical practice, and the Atlantic geopolitics behind the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty

Putting science to the test: initiating the world's longest unfortified boundary

Mapping inequality, resistance, and solutions in early national Philadelphia.

Notes:

Based on papers from the three day conference "The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders" held October 10-12, 2019 at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.

Volume includes an Introduction by Nicholas Gliserman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, whose research focuses on the history of cartography in North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The printing on the spine incorrectly lists this as Transactions Volume 109, Part 4.

ISBN:

9781606181041

1606181041

OCLC:

1262156523