The Natural Boundaries of Empires; and a New View of Colonization
Author: John FINCH (Member of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec.)
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 332
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Author: John FINCH (Member of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec.)
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 332
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: S. Max Edelson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0674978994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the Treaty of Paris ended the Seven Years’ War in 1763, British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Florida Keys, from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River, and across new islands in the West Indies. To better rule these vast dominions, Britain set out to map its new territories with unprecedented rigor and precision. Max Edelson’s The New Map of Empire pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions in the generation before the American Revolution. Under orders from King George III to reform the colonies, the Board of Trade dispatched surveyors to map far-flung frontiers, chart coastlines in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, sound Florida’s rivers, parcel tropical islands into plantation tracts, and mark boundaries with indigenous nations across the continental interior. Scaled to military standards of resolution, the maps they produced sought to capture the essential attributes of colonial spaces—their natural capacities for agriculture, navigation, and commerce—and give British officials the knowledge they needed to take command over colonization from across the Atlantic. Britain’s vision of imperial control threatened to displace colonists as meaningful agents of empire and diminished what they viewed as their greatest historical accomplishment: settling the New World. As London’s mapmakers published these images of order in breathtaking American atlases, Continental and British forces were already engaged in a violent contest over who would control the real spaces they represented. Accompanying Edelson’s innovative spatial history of British America are online visualizations of more than 250 original maps, plans, and charts.
Author: Neeladri Bhattacharya
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1108753140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays is an important contribution to the new literature on frontier studies and the historiography of Northeast India. Moving away from an exclusive dependence on colonial ethnographies, the authors build their arguments on a varied range of sources: from buranjis to revenue records, survey maps to explorers' diaries, and missionary papers to police files. They question the givennes of the categories through which the region is usually described, and contest the stereotypes by which the people of the region are primitivized. They explore the historical processes whereby the region was surveyed, mapped, understood, represented, politically governed, economically refigured, and historically constituted during the colonial period. Though focused on the experience of Northeast India, the volume also raises substantive questions about the idea of the frontier and the border, the primitive and the modern, and the tribal and the settled, the local and the trans-local.
Author: John Alexander Ferguson
Publisher: National Library Australia
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780642990464
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 84
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 784
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vincent Hiribarren
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-02-17
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ISBN-13: 1787384403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, but it was once the heartland of the Kanuri-speaking royal empire of Kanem-Borno, renowned throughout Africa and beyond, which in its later incarnation, the Bornu Empire, lasted from 1380 to 1893. This book offers the reader the first modern history of Borno, drawing upon sources in London, Berlin, Paris, Kaduna and Maiduguri and recently released 'migrated archives'. As its longevity suggests, what is particularly remarkable about Borno is the permanence of its boundaries-its territorial integrity-which dates back centuries, and the political and social identities that such borders framed in the minds of its inhabitants.
Author: Suzanne N. Lalonde
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2002-12-06
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0773570497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShe argues that nothing justifies conferring such a binding status on the principle and that the uti possidetis applied in Yugoslavia was an entirely new version that can derive no legitimacy from colonial precedents. While the doctrine may have considerable utility in some cases, it is only principle among many that must be considered if future disputes are to be resolved so as to promote long term peace and stability. Lalonde sounds a cautionary note, showing that the idea that uti possidetis provides a one-size-fits-all, legally incontestable solution to all territorial disputes is an illusion.
Author: Yuri Pines
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-01-21
Total Pages: 413
ISBN-13: 1108488633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comparative study to explore the dynamics of expansion and contraction of major continental empires in Eurasia.