This book describes the emergence of the territorial state and examines the role that cartography has played in shaping its linear boundaries.

Analyzes spatial history of 19th and early 20th century Mexico, particularly political uses of mapping and surveying, to demonstrate multiple ways that space ca

Blending science and technology studies, sociology, and geography with a host of archival material and gorgeously produced maps, The Politics of Maps explores h

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