This book describes the emergence of the territorial state and examines the role that cartography has played in shaping its linear boundaries.

1. Introduction; 2. Authority, sovereignty, and international change; 3. The cartographic revolution; 4. Mapping the territorial state; 5. New World mapping and colonial reflection; 6. Peace treaties and political transformation; 7. Mapping the territorialization of France; 8. The cartographic state today.

Jordan Branch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Brown University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and in 2011-12 he was the Hayward R. Alker Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California. His articles have appeared in the European Journal of International Relations and in International Organization.