Titlebook: Mapping Empires: Colonial Cartographies of Land and Sea; 7th International Sy Alexander James Kent,Soetkin Vervust,Nick Millea Conference p

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Surveying Empires: Archaeologies of Colonial Cartography and the Great Trigonometrical Survey of Inde of the Great Trigonometrical Survey (GTS) of India, and West Bengal in particular, the material landscape legacies of the GTS are analysed and interpreted. This reveals new insights into how surveys of the GTS were undertaken in the nineteenth century, under George Everest, and the infrastructure

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War Cartography in the Survey of India, 1920–1946as its already bulging territories led to an increased need for securing borders. Along with anxieties about the Afghan border on the North-West Frontier of India, there were growing tensions in the virtually unmapped colonies in Africa, Mesopotamia and East Persia. A critical knowledge of the histo

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Mapping Changes in Ottoman-Austrian Borders During the Eighteenth Centuryned in 1699, introducing territorial losses that dramatically changed the Empire’s borders. Since the determination of these borders was important for international relations, particularly with Austria, boundary mapping was one of the main subjects of Ottoman cartography during the eighteenth centur

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German Names in the Kilimanjaro Region the summit of Kilimanjaro was regarded as an important national task and tackled as a scientific research project. For various reasons, its first climber Hans Meyer had given numerous names to landscape elements in the higher uncultivated and uninhabited summit region. These names became part of th

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