Cartography and statecraft
Subtitle: studies in governmental mapmaking in modern Europe and its colonies
By: [edited by James R. Akerman].
Contributors: Akerman, James R.; International Conference on the History of Cartography (15th : 1993 : Chicago, Ill.)
Series: Cartographica -- v. 35, no. 3/4 = -- monograph 52; Cartographica (1980) -- v. 35, no. 3/4.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: North York, ON
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Cartography -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.; Europe -- Colonies -- Maps -- History -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.; Maps
Notes: "All of the papers in this volume were presented in earlier forms at the Fifteenth International conference on the History of Cartography, held at Chicago's Newberry Library in June 1993--Foreword, p. v.

"Published July, 1999."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Putting the British seas on the map : John Dee's imperial cartography / William H. Sherman; value: President, king's jester, and cartographer : Jakob Paul von Gundling and the first domestic map of Brandenburg, 1724 / Wolfgang Scharfe; value: Geography and Cassini IV : witness and victim of social and disciplinary change / Anne Godlewska; value: Cartography and power in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Monique Pelletier; value: State, territorial expansion, and the meaning of maps : some perspectives on the eighteenth-century mapping of the Baltic Sea / Pellervo Kokkonen; value: The cartographic work of the General Statistics Board of Spain, 1856-1870 / Francesc Nadal, Luis Urteaga, and J. Ignacio Muro; value: Topographic cartography from a regional government : the geographic map of Catalonia, 1914-19 / M. Carme Montaner; value: Maps from inspections of the northern frontier of New Spain in the second half of the eighteenth century / Dennis Reinhartz; value: Peter Thonning's map of Danish Guinea and its use in colonial administration and Atlantic diplomacy, 1801-18 / Daniel Hopkins; value: the contribution of cartography to the creation of a Dutch colony and a Chinese state in Taiwan / Kees Zandvliet.