Imperial Borderlands

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Acronyms and Transcription Conventions

Introduction

 1 A History of Maps and Territories

 2 Confines, Margins, Frontiers: Space as an Object

 3 Connecting Empires

1 Connected Histories of Exploration

 1 A Well-Stocked Colonial Library with a Long History

 2 Geographies of Exploration and Travel Narratives before 1885

 3 Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building after 1885

2 Colonial Geographical Departments and Large-Scale Map-Making Programmes

 1 The Creation of Colonial Geographical Departments

 2 Systematic Mapping of the Whole Territory: A Qualitative Advance?

 3 Meeting the Challenge of Limited Staff, Budgets and Material

3 Geographical Institutions: Collaboration, Competition, and Confrontation

 1 Rivalry and Cooperation between Map-Makers

 2 The Circulation and Uses of Maps

4 Triangulation “from the Mountains to the Sea

 1 Tough Working Conditions and a Dangerous Terrain

 2 Topographers and Geodetic Surveyors in Action: Adapting Standard Practice

 3 Human Settlements and Dwellings: A Map-Maker’s Headache

5 Consulting the Local Population

 1 The Role of Intelligence: Local Information Sources during the Conquest

 2 Place Names, the Impossible Task

6 Using Asian Maps: Borrowings and Reworkings

 1 Checking Historical Borders

7 Colonial Roads and Territorial Reconfigurations

 1 Travelling across the Territory

 2 The Margins Reconfigured by Roads

8 Locating, Demarcating, and Crossing the Border

 1 Theoretical Variations

 2 Boundary Marking in Practice

 3 Border Controls and Infringements

9 Logics of Rule and Territorial Anomalies

 1 The Specific Status of the Frontier Provinces

 2 Unstable Territorial Divisions

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index