{"id":5914,"date":"2013-05-10T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2013-05-10T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T14:43:00","slug":"centers-director-recieves-award-for-surveyors-of-empire-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/2013\/05\/centers-director-recieves-award-for-surveyors-of-empire-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"Center’s Director recieves award for Surveyors of Empire publication"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Stephen J. Hornsby<\/a>, director of the Canadian-American Center has been awarded The Pierre Savard Award<\/a> by the International Council for Canadian Studies<\/a> for his recent book Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Pierre Savard Awards<\/a> are designed to recognize and highlight outstanding scholarly monographs on a Canadian topic.\u00a0 The awards form part of a strategy that is aimed at promoting, especially throughout the Canadian academic community, works that have been written by members of the Canadian Studies international network.\u00a0 The awards are intended to designate exceptional books, which, being based on a Canadian topic, contribute to a better understanding of Canada.<\/p>\n

Stephen J. Hornsby<\/a>\u2019s Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune<\/em><\/a> was published by McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press in April 2011.\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 \u201cSurveyors 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.\u201d\u00a0 The book is lavishly illustrated with maps and historical images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen J. Hornsby, director of the Canadian-American Center has been awarded The Pierre Savard Award by the International Council for Canadian Studies for his recent book Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune. The Pierre Savard Awards are designed to recognize and highlight outstanding scholarly monographs on […]<\/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":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_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-5914","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\/5914","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=5914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}