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

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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1. Verfasser: Brückner, Martin, 1963-
Format: Elektronisch Karte
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Schriftenreihe:Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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Zusammenfassung: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 identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469601014
146960101X
0807830003
9780807830000
080785672X
9780807856727

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