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Names: Rugy, Marie de, author. | Brown, Saskia, translator.
Title: Imperial borderlands : maps and territory-building in the northern Indochinese Peninsula (1885-1914) / by Marie de Rugy, translated by Saskia Brown.
Other titles: Aux confins des empires, cartes et constructions territoriales dans le nord de la péninsule indochinoise (1885-1914). English
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] | Series: Mapping the past, 2589-9945 ; vol. 1 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021031774 (print) | LCCN 2021031775 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004456211 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004469853 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Cartography—History—18th century. | LCGFT: World atlases. | World maps. | Early maps.
Classification: LCC G1025 .R7 2021 (print) | LCC G1025 (ebook) | DDC 911/.59—dc23
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ISSN 2589-9945
ISBN 978-90-04-45621-1 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-46985-3 (e-book)
Copyright 2022 by Marie de Rugy. Published by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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English language translation: © Saskia Brown, 2021.
© 2018, Éditions de la Sorbonne – Paris, France. Original title: Aux confins des empires. Cartes et constructions territoriales dans le nord de la péninsule indochinoise (1885–1914).
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