George Washington's America : a biography through his maps Barnet Schecter

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schecter, Barnet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Washington, George, 1732-1799.

Washington, George.

Washington, George, 1732-1799--Map collections.

Washington, George, 1732-1799--Knowledge--Geography.

United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.

United States.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.

United States--History--1783-1815.

Generals--United States--Biography.

Generals.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

George Washington atlas.

Physical Description:

303 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 34 cm

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Walker & Co., 2010.

Summary:

This book is a unique biography of George Washington inspired by the maps he used throughout his life--offering new insight into the historic events of his era. From his teens until his death, the maps George Washington drew and purchased were always central to his work as a surveyor, military leader, private citizen, and statesman. After his death, many of the most important maps he had acquired were bound into an atlas. The atlas remained in his family for almost a century before it was sold and eventually ended up at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library. Inspired by these remarkable maps, historian Barnet Schecter has crafted a unique portrait of our first Founding Father, placing the reader at the scenes of his early career as a surveyor, his dramatic exploits in the French and Indian War (his altercation with the French is credited as the war's spark), his struggles throughout the American Revolution as he outmaneuvered the far more powerful British army, his diplomacy as president, and his shaping of the new republic. Beautifully illustrated in color, with twenty-four of the full atlas maps, dozens more detail views from those maps, and numerous additional maps (some drawn by Washington himself), portraits, and other image--and produced in an elegant large format--George Washington's America allows readers to visualize history through Washington's eyes, and sheds fresh light on the man and his times. -- From publisher information.

Contents:

Introduction: An atlas tells a life story

Virginia, Barbados, and the Ohio country

From the Monongahela to Massachusetts

The siege of Boston

The American invasion of Canada

From the Hudson to Philadelphia and back

The war in the South

After the Revolution: uniting an expanding nation

Danger on the frontiers, upheaval in Europe

Gains in the Northwest and Southwest, trouble with France

Back to the land, dividing Mount Vernon

Appendix: Contents of the Yale George Washington atlas.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-293) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Schecter, Barnet. George Washington's America.

ISBN:

9780802717481

0802717489

OCLC:

501404239