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Author Dunlop, Catherine Tatiana, author.

Title Cartophilia : maps and the search for identity in the French-German borderland / Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 257 pages) : maps
Contents Mapping borders. States map their borders: scientific technology and transnational exchange ; What makes a good border? Nationalism and the rise of unofficial boundary map ; The invention of language borders: visual images of a cultural divide -- Borderland maps for everyday life. Finding the center: Picturing the homeland in local regional spaces ; Maps for movement: hiking the border in the Vosges Mountains ; Border cityscape: visualizing Strasbourg through national and transnational frameworks
Summary Catherine Tatiana Dunlop is assistant professor of modern European history at Montana State University, Bozeman
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cartography -- Political aspects -- France
Cartography -- Political aspects -- Germany
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Cartography.
Boundaries
Maps
SUBJECT Alsace (France) -- Maps -- History -- 19th century
Lorraine (France) -- Maps -- History -- 19th century
Alsace (France) -- Maps -- History -- 20th century
Lorraine (France) -- Maps -- History -- 20th century
France -- Boundaries -- Germany -- History
Germany -- Boundaries -- France -- History
Subject France
France -- Alsace
France -- Lorraine
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226173160
022617316X