The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity

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.
Subjects:
Historical geography > Historical geography > United States > Maps.
HISTORY > Historical Geography.
Geografie.
Kaarten (geografie)
Natievorming.
Amerikaans.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
Britse koloniën.
United States.
Maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the geographic revolution in the wilderness
  • The surveyed self : geodesy, writing, and colonial identity in eighteenth-century British America
  • The continent speaks : geography, oratory, and the figuration of identity in revolutionary America
  • Maps, spellers, and the semiotics of nationalism in the early republic
  • Geography textbooks and reading national character
  • Novel geographies of the republic
  • Native American geographies and the journals of Lewis and Clark
  • Literacy for empire : geography, education, and the aesthetic of territoriality.

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