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Surveyors of empire : Samuel Holland, J.W.F. Des Barres, and the making of the Atlantic Neptune
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Hornsby as mentioned in this paper examines the development of British military cartography in North America during and after the Seven Years War, as well as advancements in military and scientific equipment used in surveying.About:
This article is published in Journal of Historical Geography.The article was published on 2012-04-01. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Atlantic World & Empire.read more
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Colonising Space and Producing Territory: John and Elizabeth Simcoe and Water, Power, and Empire in Upper Canada, 1791-1796
TL;DR: The authors examines how John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, and his wife, Elizabeth, manifested imperial expressions of power, sovereignty, security, and population within the new colony in the 1790s.
Constructing Imperial Spaces: Habsburg Cartography in the Age of Enlightenment
TL;DR: In the second half of the eighteenth century, military engineers working for the Austrian Habsburg monarchs mapped in detail for the first time the provinces and borders of their empire.
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Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism in 2011
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MapScholar: A Web Tool for Publishing Interactive Cartographic Collections
S. Max Edelson,Bill Ferster +1 more
TL;DR: MapScholar as mentioned in this paper is an open-source Web tool that encourages humanities researchers to gather, analyze, and share images of historical maps, and it is designed to open access to map images, visualize maps as collections within rich geospatial contexts, and enhance traditional publishing by making it easy to produce interactive, high-resolution map displays.
A different view from the sea: place naming on Cape Breton Island
Abstract: George Story’s paper A view from the sea: Newfoundland place-naming suggests that there are other, complementary methods of collection and analysis than those used by his colleague E. R. Seary. Story examines the wealth of material found in travel accounts and the knowledge of fishers. This paper takes a different view from the sea as it considers the development of Cape Breton placenames using cartographic evidence from several influential historic maps from 1632 to 1878. The paper’s focus is on the shift names that were first given to water and coastal features and later shifted to designate settlements. As the seasonal fishing stations became permanent settlements, these new communities retained the names originally given to water and coastal features, so, for example, Glace Bay names a town and bay. By the 1870s, shift names account for a little more than 80% of the community names recorded on the Cape Breton county maps in the Atlas of the Maritime Provinces. Other patterns of naming also reflect a view from the sea. Landmarks and boundary markers appear on early maps and are consistently repeated, and perimeter naming occurs along the seacoasts, lakes, and rivers. This view from the sea is a distinctive quality of the island’s names.