TY - BOOK ID - 78141131 TI - Mapping Europe's Borderlands : Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire PY - 2012 SN - 1280491752 9786613586988 0226744272 9780226744278 0226744256 9780226744254 9781280491757 6613586986 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cartography KW - Cartography, Primitive KW - Chartography KW - Map-making KW - Mapmaking KW - Mapping (Cartography) KW - Mathematical geography KW - Surveying KW - Map projection KW - Maps KW - Political aspects KW - Russia KW - Europe, Eastern KW - East Europe KW - Eastern Europe KW - Russie KW - Rossīi︠a︡ KW - Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ KW - Russia (Provisional government, 1917) KW - Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) KW - Russland KW - Ṛusastan KW - Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) KW - Russian Empire KW - Rosja KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920) KW - Relations KW - europe, european, borderlands, borders, russian, russia, cartography, cartographer, empire, history, historical context, map, mapping, maps, communication, orientation, power, knowledge, state structures, nation building, national constructions, military, ethnography, napoleonic wars, geography, geographical, intelligence, politics, political, poland, ukraine, lithuania, imperialism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78141131 AB - The simplest purpose of a map is a rational one: to educate, to solve a problem, to point someone in the right direction. Maps shape and communicate information, for the sake of improved orientation. But maps exist for states as well as individuals, and they need to be interpreted as expressions of power and knowledge, as Steven Seegel makes clear in his impressive and important new book. Mapping Europe's Borderlands takes the familiar problems of state and nation building in eastern Europe and presents them through an entirely new prism, that of cartography and cartographers. Drawing from sources in eleven languages, including military, historical-pedagogical, and ethnographic maps, as well as geographic texts and related cartographic literature, Seegel explores the role of maps and mapmakers in the East Central European borderlands from the Enlightenment to the Treaty of Versailles. For example, Seegel explains how Russia used cartography in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars and, later, formed its geography society as a cover for gathering intelligence. He also explains the importance of maps to the formation of identities and institutions in Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania, as well as in Russia. Seegel concludes with a consideration of the impact of cartographers' regional and socioeconomic backgrounds, educations, families, career options, and available language choices. ER -