Map wars: The role of maps in the Nova Scotia/Acadia boundary disputes of 1750

Pedley, Mary Sponberg

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“…The 1713 Peace of Utrecht is a case in point, leaving three Anglo-French frontiers, two Franco-Spanish, and one Anglo-Spanish frontier without any formal, let alone linear definition 10 . One of the territories concerned was defined simply as “Acadia, in its entirety, conformable to its ancient limits,” of which imperial officials were later unable to find any conclusive documentary evidence (Pedley 1998, 97). US independence brought a decisive break with this regular practice because it brought settler officials, who were deeply familiar with surveying, into interimperial diplomacy.…”

Section: Imperial Boundariesmentioning

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The Colonial Origins of Modern Territoriality: Property Surveying in the Thirteen Colonies

Goettlich

2021

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Most scholars agree the rise of states led to modern territoriality. Yet globally the transition to precise boundaries occurred most often in colonies, and there are virtually no systematic explanations of its occurrence outside Europe. This article explains how precise boundaries emerged in the earliest context where they were regularly and generally implemented: seventeenth- and eighteenth-century colonial North America. Unlike explanations of modern territoriality in Europe, it argues property boundary surveys became an entrenched practice on the part of settlers and were a readily available response to intercolonial boundary disputes. After independence, settlers who were accustomed to surveys pursued linear boundaries with Britain, Spain, and Russia. Moreover, the article argues that linear borders (delimited linearly and typically physically demarcated), not sovereignty, are constitutive of modern territoriality. By disentangling the literature’s Eurocentric confusion between modern territoriality and sovereign statehood, the article makes possible a global comparative study of the emergence of modern territoriality.

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Section: Imperial Boundariesmentioning

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The Colonial Origins of Modern Territoriality: Property Surveying in the Thirteen Colonies

Goettlich

2021

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…The publisher's maps could be found in the Gentlemen's Magazine , the published history of Edward Long (1970[1774]), and, surprisingly, the reference materials of opposing French officers. Maps documented boundaries, aided in territorial negotiation, and symbolized the “economic fortunes at stake” (Pedley 1998) for the bureaucrat, adversary, and well‐informed metropolitan reader. Although not indicative of any single imperial intention, they did represent a particular kind of imagination born in the metropole that framed the space in which both the planting elite and enslaved laborers experienced the island colonies.…”

Section: Island Territories and Colonial Boundariesmentioning

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Routes and Roots of Empire: Pots, Power, and Slavery in the 18th-Century British Caribbean

Hauser

2011

American Anthropologist

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I draw on research from Jamaica and Dominica to track economic networks through analysis of ceramic assemblages from house yards of enslaved laborers. Ceramics produced in Europe and used by colonial subjects have been used to reinforce narratives in which empires jealously guarded mercantile trade regimes. The presence of local coarse earthenware made and used by people of African extraction allows an analysis of more localized networks-some of which transgressed social and political boundaries. Careful analysis allows us to extend this observation to some European-made ceramics as well. As such, ceramic assemblages speak to how boundaries were enacted differently depending on the status of the actors engaged in these transactions. Attention to the variegated economic practices of colonial residents provides one mechanism to map the distances between how colonies were imagined in the imperial center and the practices of everyday life of people living at the boundaries of empires. [slavery, empires, trade networks, African diaspora, Colono Ware] ISLAND TERRITORIES AND COLONIAL BOUNDARIES

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“…Maps played an important role in the continued litigation leading up to the Treaty, as both French and British negotiators sought to use maps produced by the other power as evidence for a greater or lesser extent of Acadia's "ancient boundaries." 162 This proved to be a fruitless endeavour, as both sides were forced to reckon with the fact that no maps, either contemporary or historical, could shed any meaningful light on the issue. Nicholas Bellin's 1750 Carte Reduite du Golphe St. Laurent offers some insight into the inadequacy, of 18 th century maps at least, to legislate land boundaries in Acadia.…”

Section: Mi'kmaq Treatiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cod And Castor, Competition And Coexistence

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Map wars: The role of maps in the Nova Scotia/Acadia boundary disputes of 1750

Cited by 7 publications

References 1 publication

The Colonial Origins of Modern Territoriality: Property Surveying in the Thirteen Colonies

The Colonial Origins of Modern Territoriality: Property Surveying in the Thirteen Colonies

Routes and Roots of Empire: Pots, Power, and Slavery in the 18th-Century British Caribbean

Cod And Castor, Competition And Coexistence

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