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The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860 /
In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A "carto-coded" America - a nation in which maps are pervasive and meaningful - had to be created. The S...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introducing the social life of American maps
- American mapworks
- The artisanal map, 1750-1815: workshops and shopkeepers from Lewis Evans to Samuel Lewis
- The manufactured map, 1790-1830: centralization and integration from Mathew Carey to John Melish
- The industrial map, 1820-1860: innovation and diversification from Henry S. Tanner to S. Augustus Mitchell
- The spectacle of maps
- Public giants: re-staging power and the theatricality of maps
- Private properties: ornamental maps and the decorum of interiority
- Self-made spectacles: the look of maps and cartographic visualcy
- The mobilization of maps
- Looking small and made to go: the atlas and the rise of the cartographic vade mecum
- Cartographic transfers: education and the art of mappery
- Cartoral arts and material metaphors
- Price table-maps and their sales prices, 1755-1860
- Inventory of 'John Melish geographer and map publisher'.