The Geographic Revolution in Early America : Maps, Literacy, and National Identity /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brückner, Martin, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico Mapa
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Amerikaans.
Natievorming.
Kaarten (geografie)
Geografie.
HISTORY > Historical Geography.
Historical geography > Historical geography > United States > Maps.
United States.
Britse koloniën.
Verenigde Staten.
États-Unis > Geographie historique > Atlas.
Maps.
Electronic books.
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.

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