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Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India 1765-1843
| Author: | Matthew H. Edney |
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
| Catalogue number: | 79196 |
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There are two parts to this history of the British surveys of India. First the author presents a detailed survey of cartographic techniques in the 18th and early 19th centuries and the institutional...
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