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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the geographic revolution in the wilderness
- The surveyed self : geodesy, writing, and colonial identity in eighteenth-century British America
- The continent speaks : geography, oratory, and the figuration of identity in revolutionary America
- Maps, spellers, and the semiotics of nationalism in the early republic
- Geography textbooks and reading national character
- Novel geographies of the republic
- Native American geographies and the journals of Lewis and Clark
- Literacy for empire : geography, education, and the aesthetic of territoriality.