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

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UNC Press Books, 2006 - 276 páginas
The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. In a pathbreaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that
 

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The Geographic Revolution in the Wilderness
1
Geodesy Writing and Colonial Identity in EighteenthCentury British America
16
Geography Oratory and the Figuration of Identity in Revolutionary America
51
3 Maps Spellers and the Semiotics of Nationalism in the Early Republic
98
4 Geography Textbooks and Reading National Character
142
5 Novel Geographies of the Republic
173
6 Native American Geographies and the Journals of Lewis and Clark
204
Geography Education and the Aesthetic of Territoriality
238
Index
265
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