Surveyors of Empire

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Surveyors of Empire is written by Stephen J. Hornsby and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0773587349 (ISBN 10) and 9780773587342 (ISBN 13).

British imperial power was greatly bolstered by new techniques in surveying and map-making during the eighteenth century. Well before James Cook sailed for the Pacific in 1768, British army engineers working on the coastline from Quebec to Rhode Island had set new scientific standards for cartography that would assist the British in mapping future conquests. Surveyors of Empire explores the groundbreaking work of these engineers, which formed the basis of The Atlantic Neptune, a four-volume hydrographic atlas that stands as a monument of European Enlightenment science.