Mapping and empire
Subtitle: soldier-engineers on the southwestern frontier
By: edited by Dennis Reinhartz and Gerald D. Saxon.
Contributors: Reinhartz, Dennis.; Saxon, Gerald D.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Military topography -- Southwestern States -- History; Maps, Military -- History; Southwestern States -- Discovery and exploration; Southwestern States -- Maps
Genres: Maps.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Spanish Maritime Charting of the Gulf of Mexico and the California Coast / W. Michael Mathes; title: 2. Spanish Military Engineers in the New World before 1750 / David Buisseret; title: 3. Spanish Military Mapping of the Northern Borderlands after 1750 / Dennis Reinhartz; title: 4. U.S. Army Military Mapping of the American Southwest during the Nineteenth Century / Ralph E. Ehrenberg; title: 5. Henry Washington Benham: A U.S. Army Engineer's View of the U.S.-Mexican War / Gerald D. Saxon; title: 6. Trabajos Desconocidos, Ingenieros Olvidados: Unknown Works and Forgotten Engineers of the Mexican Boundary Commission / Paula Rebert; title: 7. Soldier-Engineers in the Geographic Understanding of the Southwestern Frontier; title: An Afterthought / John R. Hébert.