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The relationship between geographical knowledge and European imperial power has been an important field of research over the last decade. This collection of essays seeks to add to this salient: it presents a focussed and interconnected
set of studies of how Europe sought to command overseas space.
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The relationship between geographical knowledge and European imperial power has been an important field of research over the last decade. This collection of essays seeks to add to this salient: it presents a focussed and interconnected set of studies of how Europe sought to command overseas space.
Contents
Introduction: The relevance of apprehending spatial history of empire Tell and Sahara: the palimpsest of a subdivision of colonial Algeria; F. Deprest Outlining objects of research in Africa: district, zone, region or terroir?; M. de Suremain Surveying the Congo territory. Geographical knowledge, military resources and colonial expansion (1870-1900); P. Van Schuylenberg Science and border in the making: the Tilho mission between Chad and Niger (1906-1909); C. Lefebvre Ordering the South: The American Geographical Society's Map of Hispanic America; M. Heffernan Maps of the Empire in British Atlases, 1884-1914; I. Avila The Travels of Maurice Zimmermann in Northern Africa (1908-1930): Spatial Patterns and the Apportioning of Colonial Space; P. Clerc A rent in the imperial canvas: the Laminia affair (1893-1895); I. Surun An Empire in the Sand? Linking up Algeria and the Sudan: the Saharan Hinterland and the Making of an Imperial Idea, 1830-1930; H. Blais Ten empires in a pocket handkerchief. The territory of Tientsin and the concession phenomenon (1860-1920); P. Singaravelou The Altitude Lobby: Colonial Knowledge, Networks, and Hill Stations ; E. T. Jennings Conclusion
