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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rugy, Marie de, author.

Contributor:

Brown, Saskia, translator.

Series:

Mapping the tradition ; Volume 1.

Mapping the past ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--History--18th century.

Cartography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-46985-0