Description: Leading historians discuss the roles of the Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. militaries in mapping the Greater Southwest from the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries.
Brief description: DENNIS REINHARTZ is Professor of History and Russian at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Review Quotes: Mapping and Empire provides a fascinating investigation into the role of cartography in empire building, both as a method of delineating territorial holdings and of maintaining control over them. This book is a major contribution both to American history as a whole and to the cartographic history of the Greater Southwest.--Maeve Tynan, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick"Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas" (11/01/2006)