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The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity /
The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among non elite Americans. This illustrated book argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres significantly influenced the formation of ident...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico Mapa |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among non elite Americans. This illustrated book argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469601014 146960101X 0807830003 9780807830000 080785672X 9780807856727 |