The essays in this book address fields into which ethnographic knowledge poured - military, mission, history, anthropology, and literature. It broadens our understanding of knowledge formats - pictures, maps, atlases, plays, tape recordings, lectures, films, posters, museums, and exhibitions, exerting a powerful influence on imperial identities. According to the authors, it is place, space, territories and boundaries ethnographic knowledge was superseded by imperial discourse: defining regions, establishing ethnic or national affiliations, and conceiving geographical entities implied the mapping of political and historical hierarchies