Mapping an Empire

Mapping an Empire
Author: Matthew H. Edney
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780226184883

The reshaping of cartographic technologies in Europe into their modern form, including the adoption of the technique of triangulation (known at the time as "trigonometrical survey") at the beginning of the nineteenth century, played a key role in the use of the GTS as an instrument of British cartographic control over India. In analyzing this reconfiguration, Edney undertakes the first detailed, critical analysis of the foundations of modern cartography.