Imperial Borderlands: Maps and Territory-Building in the Northern Indochinese Peninsula (1885-1914)

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Figures
Acronyms and Transcription Conventions
Introduction
	1 A History of Maps and Territories
	2 Confines, Margins, Frontiers: Space as an Object
	3 Connecting Empires
Chapter 1 Connected Histories of Exploration
	1 A Well-Stocked Colonial Library with a Long History
	2 Geographies of Exploration and Travel Narratives before 1885
	3 Colonial Knowledge and Empire-Building after 1885
Chapter 2 Colonial Geographical Departments and Large-Scale Map-Making Programmes
	1 The Creation of Colonial Geographical Departments
	2 Systematic Mapping of the Whole Territory: A Qualitative Advance?
	3 Meeting the Challenge of Limited Staff, Budgets and Material
Chapter 3 Geographical Institutions: Collaboration, Competition, and Confrontation
	1 Rivalry and Cooperation between Map-Makers
	2 The Circulation and Uses of Maps
Chapter 4 Triangulation “from the Mountains to the Sea”
	1 Tough Working Conditions and a Dangerous Terrain
	2 Topographers and Geodetic Surveyors in Action: Adapting Standard Practice
	3 Human Settlements and Dwellings: A Map-Maker’s Headache
Chapter 5 Consulting the Local Population
	1 The Role of Intelligence: Local Information Sources during the Conquest
	2 Place Names, the Impossible Task
Chapter 6 Using Asian Maps: Borrowings and Reworkings
	1 Checking Historical Borders
Chapter 7 Colonial Roads and Territorial Reconfigurations
	1 Travelling across the Territory
	2 The Margins Reconfigured by Roads
Chapter 8 Locating, Demarcating, and Crossing the Border
	1 Theoretical Variations
	2 Boundary Marking in Practice
	3 Border Controls and Infringements
Chapter 9 Logics of Rule and Territorial Anomalies
	1 The Specific Status of the Frontier Provinces
	2 Unstable Territorial Divisions
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index