During the conquest, colonial cartography had geopolitical strategic stakes : it was intended to secure imperial influence over the African continent. Colonial mapping later helped to assert the economic and administrative control over the territories. The progressive improvement of the map accuracy demonstrates how geographical knowledge served to establish investment priorities. In addition, as a colonial pedagogie tool, maps illustrated the power of empires. In Europe, they helped metropolitan opinions familiarize themselves with the existing empires. Locally, maps played an important role in identifying the boundaries of submitted peoples, and linking them to specific territories. Ethnographic maps were crucial toolsfor confining and co...
By focusing on the “nature” of mapping, this thesis falls under the category of critical cartography...
Le renforcement des relations entre la géographie et les questions coloniales se manifeste, au cours...
This paper provides an introduction to a special feature of the Journal of Historical Geography devo...
During the conquest, colonial cartography had geopolitical strategic stakes : it was intended to sec...
Alexandre Meunier (1870-1942), a forgotten French cartographer working for the "Service Géographique...
La monarchie française a collecté un nombre impressionnant de documents géographiques décrivant ses ...
International audienceThe analysis of two maps produced in Africa by Africans at the request of Euro...
This dissertation challenges conventional cartographic histories of Africa that invariably present a...
L’histoire des colonies antillaises fait de cet espace un lieu géopolitiquement instable. En effet, ...
Durch die Analyse eines Plans der Pariser Kolonialausstellung von 1931, die ein Riesenerfolg gewesen...
Ce livre a pour ambition de réexaminer la relation entre savoirs géographiques et empires à la lumiè...
The objective of the paper is to present the evolution of the mapmaking process among traditional so...
Abstract. - Through the analysis of the history of the knowledge of the Lobi (South-West of Burkina ...
By focusing on the “nature” of mapping, this thesis falls under the category of critical cartography...
Le renforcement des relations entre la géographie et les questions coloniales se manifeste, au cours...
This paper provides an introduction to a special feature of the Journal of Historical Geography devo...
During the conquest, colonial cartography had geopolitical strategic stakes : it was intended to sec...
Alexandre Meunier (1870-1942), a forgotten French cartographer working for the "Service Géographique...
La monarchie française a collecté un nombre impressionnant de documents géographiques décrivant ses ...
International audienceThe analysis of two maps produced in Africa by Africans at the request of Euro...
This dissertation challenges conventional cartographic histories of Africa that invariably present a...
L’histoire des colonies antillaises fait de cet espace un lieu géopolitiquement instable. En effet, ...
Durch die Analyse eines Plans der Pariser Kolonialausstellung von 1931, die ein Riesenerfolg gewesen...
Ce livre a pour ambition de réexaminer la relation entre savoirs géographiques et empires à la lumiè...
The objective of the paper is to present the evolution of the mapmaking process among traditional so...
Abstract. - Through the analysis of the history of the knowledge of the Lobi (South-West of Burkina ...
By focusing on the “nature” of mapping, this thesis falls under the category of critical cartography...
Le renforcement des relations entre la géographie et les questions coloniales se manifeste, au cours...
This paper provides an introduction to a special feature of the Journal of Historical Geography devo...