Cartophilia
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Cartophilia

Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland

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Cartophilia

Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland

About this book

The period between the French Revolution and World War II was a time of tremendous growth in both mapmaking and map reading throughout Europe. There is no better place to witness this rise of popular cartography than in Alsace-Lorraine, a disputed borderland that the French and Germans both claimed as their national territory. Desired for its prime geographical position and abundant natural resources, Alsace-Lorraine endured devastating wars from 1870 to 1945 that altered its borders four times, transforming its physical landscape and the political allegiances of its citizens. For the border population whose lives were turned upside down by the French-German conflict, maps became essential tools for finding a new sense of place and a new sense of identity in their changing national and regional communities.
 
Turning to a previously undiscovered archive of popular maps, Cartophilia reveals Alsace-Lorraine's lively world of citizen mapmakers that included linguists, ethnographers, schoolteachers, hikers, and priests. Together, this fresh group of mapmakers invented new genres of maps that framed French and German territory in original ways through experimental surveying techniques, orientations, scales, colors, and iconography. In focusing on the power of "bottom-up" maps to transform modern European identities, Cartophilia argues that the history of cartography must expand beyond the study of elite maps and shift its emphasis to the democratization of cartography in the modern world.

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Index

Page numbers in boldface refer to illustrations.
Aimé, Robert, 228n24
Ajoncourt, 34
Algermissen, Johan Ludwig, 103
Alps, 51
Alsace. See Alsace and Lorraine
Alsace and Lorraine, 2, 3; ethnic and racial groups in, 54–59, 56, 64, 66–68; geography curriculum in, 101–14, 108, 116–25, 117, 123, 124, 125, 126; languages in, 55, 57–58, 70–89, 82, plate 6, plates 9–13; state maps of, 21–24, 22, 33, 36–40, 37, 38, 95–101, 97, 98, 99, 206n5, plate 1; transfers between France and Germany, 2–3, 11–12, 24, 31–34, 60–61, 66–67, 80, 86, 221n7
Alsace-Lorraine (Reischland, 1871–1918). See Alsace and Lorraine
Alsace-Lorraine and the North-East Frontier (atlas), 66
Alsace Photographed (Braun), 136
Alsatian Archaeology Society, 148–49
Alsatian Banker’s Association, 68
Alsatian dialect, 70, 74, 83–85, 87–88, 215n1, 219n47
Alsatian Dialect Dictionary (Lienhart and Martin), 85, 87
Alsatian Lectures (Pfister), 123, 127
Alsatian Plain, 21, 42, 131, 137, 155, 157
Alsatians Correct Our Accent! (de Dietrich), 86
Anderson, Benedict, 10, 48
Annales school, 68, 188
anthropologists, and territorial identity, 5, 48–49, 62–66, 111–12
archaeologists, and territorial identity, 48, 62–66, 132, 147–48
Argentina (ancient name of Strasbourg), 161. See also Strasbourg
Arndt, E. M., 75
Arraye, 34
artists, ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. I Mapping Borders
  8. II Borderland Maps for Everyday Life
  9. Epilogue
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index
  14. Color plates