The geographic revolution in early America maps, literacy, and national identity /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brückner, Martin
Other Authors: Muse, Project
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North C, 2006.
Series:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Subjects:
HISTORY > Historical Geography.
Historical geography.
Geografie.
Kaarten (geografie)
Natievorming.
Amerikaans.
United States > Historical geography.
États-Unis > Géographie historique > Atlas.
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
Britse koloniën.
Maps.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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