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No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control

No Dig, No Fly, No Go: How Maps Restrict and Control, by Mark Monmonier, demonstrates how much the concept of the boundary, and therefore the power of prohibitive mapping, influences our daily lives in examples ranging from the home ownership to voting, from car insurance to fishing, from prohibiting students going to school in particular places to banishing certain industries and individuals to the periphery of society, and from settling the American West to claiming slices of Antarctica.