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Autore |
Brückner Martin <1963-> |
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Titolo |
The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity / / Martin Brückner |
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2006 |
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©2006 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908780-3-8 |
0-8078-3897-7 |
1-4696-0101-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (293 p.) |
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Collana |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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United States Historical geography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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