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Mapping and empire : soldier-engineers on the southwestern frontier

by Dennis Reinhartz, Gerald D. Saxon

This collection examines the military mapping of the American Southwest by Spain, Mexico, and the United States from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. Essays analyse how soldier-engineers established political boundaries and supported imperial expansion.

Accession 30523 ISBN 0292706596 Publisher University of Texas Press
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With essays by eight leading historians, this book offers the most current and comprehensive overview of the processes by which Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. soldier-engineers mapped the southwestern frontier, as well as the local and even geopolitical consequences of their mapping. -- Amazon.

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