{"id":3353,"date":"2011-04-11T13:30:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2023-10-24T11:09:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T15:09:56","slug":"surveyors-of-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/2011\/04\/surveyors-of-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Director Stephen Hornsby’s Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune<\/em><\/a> has just been published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.\u00a0 The book examines British surveying and mapping of northeastern North America in the 1760s and early 1770s, and the publication of The Atlantic Neptune<\/em><\/a>, a monumental four-volume nautical atlas.\u00a0 Professor Matthew Edney, University of Southern Maine and Director of the History of Cartography project, comments:\u00a0 “Surveyors of Empire<\/em><\/a> is an outstanding work of scholarship, well grounded in the archive, a project that provides a telling parable of imperial power.\u00a0 Accessible and understated, it should be of interest to a wide array of readers.”\u00a0 The book is lavishly illustrated with maps and historical images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director Stephen Hornsby’s Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune has just been published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.\u00a0 The book examines British surveying and mapping of northeastern North America in the 1760s and early 1770s, and the publication of The Atlantic Neptune, a monumental four-volume nautical atlas.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"\"Surveyors of Empire\" Publication - CanAm Center - 91¸£Àû","_seopress_titles_desc":"Director Stephen Hornsby's \"Surveyors of Empire ... \"has just been published by McGill-Queen's University Press.\u00a0","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":239,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":239,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11337,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions\/11337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}