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