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British Honduras : the invention of a colonial territory - Odile Hoffmann - IRD Éditions

British Honduras : the invention of a colonial territory

Mapping and spatial knowledge in the 19th century

De Odile Hoffmann
IRD Éditions/Cubola Productions
Collection : Hors collection
mai 2014
Livre papier
format 215 x 280 80 pages En stock
16,00 €

Présentation

Until the 17th century, the area currently occupied by Belize appeared in maps as a portion of space in the American world with no particular attribute other than being at the confines of a territory poorly known to Europeans, some of whom stopped there without making any political or social commitment before the area became coveted, delimited, and negotiated between empires. In the 18th Century it was integrated into a colonial structure as a territory to be controlled and administered by Great Britain in the 19th Century. The purpose of this monograph is not to retrace the genesis of a nation, but more modestly, to recount the invention of a colonial territory. No territory exists on its own; only social, political, symbolic and emotional constructions grant it substance and reality. Through descriptions, narratives, and maps, this monograph brings the territory into existence and displays the articulation between the imaginary, the subjectivities, and the spatial practices of the social and political actors political authorities, residents, cartographers who interacted in Belize s territorial construction.

Caractéristiques

Editeur : IRD Éditions/Cubola Productions

Auteur(s) : Odile Hoffmann

Collection : Hors collection

Publication : 1 mai 2014

Edition : 1ère édition

Intérieur : Couleur

Support(s) : Livre papier

Poids (en grammes) : 362

Langue(s) : Anglais

EAN13 Livre papier : 9789768161406

Sommaire

  1. Different versions of the national narrative  
  2. Maps and their context 
  3. Territorial disputes between colonial and imperial powers  
  4. The beginnings of a geographic rationale: Colonel Arthur  
  5. Mapping and property: The emergence of a sense of ownership  
  6. Maps and territorial development: The domestication of official space  
  7. Maps and war  
  8.  First steps towards scientific and technical mapping 

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Contributions

  • Odile Hoffmann (auteur)

    Odile Hoffmann es investigadora del IRD, geógrafa, profesora huésped del CIESAS-Golfo.

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