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This new title is about to be released, and there are also paperback and ebook versions at lesser cost:
Monmonier, Mark (2010). _No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control_. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 242 pp. ill. ISBN: 978-0-2265-3467-1. $65 (cloth). http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=5892344 A blurb from the site: "Rooted in ancient Egypt's need to reestablish property boundaries following the annual retreat of the Nile's floodwaters, restrictive mapping has been indispensable in settling the American West, claiming slices of Antarctica, protecting fragile ocean fisheries, and keeping sex offenders away from playgrounds. But it has also been used for opprobrium: during one of the darkest moments in American history, cartographic exclusion orders helped send thousands of Japanese Americans to remote detention camps. Tracing the power of prohibitive mapping at multiple levels---from regional to international---and multiple dimensions---from property to cyberspace---Monmonier demonstrates how much boundaries influence our experience---from homeownership and voting to taxation and airline travel." Joel Kovarsky
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