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The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity
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ISBN: 0807830003 9780807830000 080785672X 9780807856727 9781469601014 146960101X 0807838977 9798890878038 Year: 2006 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press

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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. In a path breaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Brückner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s. Drawing on historical geography, cartography, literary history, and material culture, Brückner recovers a vibrant culture of geography consisting of property plats and surveying manuals, decorative wall maps and school geographies, the nation's first atlases, and sentimental objects such as needlework samplers. By showing how this geographic revolution affected the production of literature, Brückner demonstrates that the internalization of geography as a kind of language helped shape the literary construction of the modern American subject.


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Cartographic encounters : indigenous peoples and the exploration of the New World
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ISBN: 9781861894366 Year: 2009 Publisher: London Reaktion Books

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In this major re-interpretation of US history, John Rennie Short argues that until now writing about, and popular understanding of, the exploration and mapping of the New World has largely ignored the pivotal role played by indigenous people. European mapping of the New World was the product of an exchange of information, a 'cartographic encounter' between newcomers and indigenous peoples. This cartographic encounter allowed Native Americans to parlay their deeper and wider knowledge of the land into a strong bargaining position, but in this very exchange lay the roots of the ultimate loss of their land. Based on extensive original research, the book is suitable for a general readership, specialists and students in the field of cartography, and those interested in the history of indigenous peoples. Both readable and considered, this new account of America's exploration will force a radical change in how we view Western exploration and discovery in general.


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The mapping of North America : a list of printed maps : 1511-1670
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ISBN: 9780952773313 0952773309 Year: 1996 Publisher: Rickmansworth Raleigh Publications

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The Mapping of America
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ISBN: 0900470917 Year: 1980 Volume: 2 Publisher: Pennsylvania Arader


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Historical atlas of the American West with original maps
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ISBN: 9780520256521 Year: 2009 Publisher: Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London University of California Press


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Atlas de la Nouvelle-France.
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ISBN: 0774664029 Year: 1973 Publisher: Quebec Presses de l'Université Laval

La mesure d'un continent : atlas historique de l'Amérique du Nord, 1492-1814
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ISBN: 9782840505501 9782894485194 2840505509 2894485190 9782894485279 Year: 2007 Publisher: Paris Sillery Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne Septentrion

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This book is about the people, Europeans and Indians, who travelled througho, explored, and mapped North America. The maps that they left us - works of art, works of science, and also strategic pieces on a global chessboard - provide irreplaceable evidence of the search for knowledge.


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New England in early printed maps, 1513 to 1800 : an illustrated carto-bibliography
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ISBN: 091661753X Year: 2001 Publisher: Providence (R.I.) John Carter Brown library


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Kaarten van Amerika in de verzamelingen van de Koninlijke Bibliotheek Albert I : tentoonstelling georganiseerd in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I van 13 november tot 31 december 1992 : catalogus
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ISBN: 9066370750 Year: 1992 Volume: vol C 237 Publisher: Brussel Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I

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