Mapping the Nation - History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

Informationen zum Autor Susan Schulten is professor of history at the University of Denver and the author of The Geographical Imagination in America! 1880-1950! also published by the University of Chicago Press. In 2010 she was named a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Klappentext In the nineteenth century! Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. This title charts how maps of epidemic disease! slavery! census statistics! the environment! and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography! and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Zusammenfassung In the nineteenth century! Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. This title charts how maps of epidemic disease! slavery! census statistics! the environment! and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography! and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Schulten, Schulten Susan, Susan Schulten
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2012
• EAN: 9780226740683
• ISBN: 978-0-226-74068-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Historical Geography, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Cartography, map-making & projections, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Cartography, map-making and projections, Historical Geography