Credit: Stephanie d'Otreppe/NPR The University of Oregon's Murphy cites numerous examples where cartography ... maps produced by the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency showed it as Pakistani territory.

Cartography is just as much an instrument of power as maps themselves, and for the first time in history, it's a tool being freely used by people who may have been ignored, or overlooked for a ...

At the time, the senate was deliberating on whether or not to admit the Alaskan territory. P.J. Mode Collection of Persuasive Cartography at Cornell University Are these maps accurate? Not always ...

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