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Prof. Matt Zembo published a review in H-Net Review.<\/p>\n
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\nin the Humanities &<\/p>\n
A. Crispin Jcwitt. Jnrclligencc Revecile<l: Maps. Plnns <m<l Viewstit Horse Guards and 1he War Office, 1800\u00b71&!10. London: .BritishUbrary Board, 2011.M\u00abps. illustrntlons. 390pp.$95 00, c!oth, IS.BN
\n97&-0-7123-58-i3-9.<\/p>\n
Reviewed by Mau Zembo (Hudson Valley Community College)<\/p>\n
[Preprint.I H-War (February. 2020)<\/p>\n
Commissioned by Margaret Sanl,cy (A.lr Unil ersity)<\/p>\n
In \/11Wll(l(e11c<' Revealed: Maps. Plm1s anoses of the War Office.Instead, Jewitt concentrates on the bureau\u00ad cratic end of things.If th,\u2022re is one thing the British are consL temly good at it isweaving a complicat\u00ad ed bureaucraric web, and War Office cartography is quite the web for the pe1iod the book COl.”Cl’S. Je\u00ad witt starts in 1803vith the creation of the Depot of Military Knowledge and the Quarter Master Gen\u00ad eral Office at Horse Guards. The Quarter Master General Office produced mapsthrough Dublin Cas\u00ad tle, Columbo. Ceylon. and Simla, lndia. The Ctimean War revealed gaps in the intelligence and mapmaking of the Quarter Masrer system so in 1855 the Topographical and Statistical Depot was created. To add to the general confusion, Jcwitt poiJ1ts out, private contractors and other institu\u00ad tions were producing official maps for govern\u00ad ment use as well. fl’Om tht\u2022 Ocdnanct\u2022 Survey, the Royal Engi.neer’s School of MUita ry Engineering. and the Directorate General of fortifications, to narne 1.lnly a few. At various times. th<.lSe instit u\u00b7 tions were combined and then pulled back apart i.t1 the name of eflickncy and s11vi.t1gs. a jumbled tale tl1at Jev.itt explai.t1s in a masterly ancl easy manner for rhc reader.What makes the story so complica ted isthe sheer nwnber of map producers within the governmeJ1t and the overlapplng areas<\/p>\n
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