The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity / Martin Brückner.

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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Main Author: Brückner, Martin, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Series:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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