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Title Mapping and empire [electronic resource] : soldier-engineers on the southwestern frontier / edited by Dennis Reinhartz and Gerald D. Saxon.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xx, 204 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Spanish Maritime Charting of the Gulf of Mexico and the California Coast / W. Michael Mathes -- 2. Spanish Military Engineers in the New World before 1750 / David Buisseret -- 3. Spanish Military Mapping of the Northern Borderlands after 1750 / Dennis Reinhartz -- 4. U.S. Army Military Mapping of the American Southwest during the Nineteenth Century / Ralph E. Ehrenberg -- 5. Henry Washington Benham: A U.S. Army Engineer's View of the U.S.-Mexican War / Gerald D. Saxon -- 6. Trabajos Desconocidos, Ingenieros Olvidados: Unknown Works and Forgotten Engineers of the Mexican Boundary Commission / Paula Rebert -- 7. Soldier-Engineers in the Geographic Understanding of the Southwestern Frontier--An Afterthought / John R. Hebert.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Military topography -- Southwestern States -- History.
Military maps -- History.
Southwestern States -- Discovery and exploration.
Southwestern States -- Maps.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Reinhartz, Dennis.
Saxon, Gerald D.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0292706596 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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