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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brückner, Martin, 1963-

Contributor:

Wunsch, Aaron V., Former owner.

Keystone Typesetting, compositor.

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, sponsor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical geography--United States--Maps.

Historical geography.

United States.

Genre:

Maps.

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

ix, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

paper

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, [2006]

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.

Notes:

Set by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.

This volume indirect support from an unrestricted book publications grant awarded to the Institute by the L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation of Oakland, California. Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch.

ISBN:

0807830003

080785672X

OCLC:

61237368

Publisher Number:

9780807830000

9780807856727