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



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Autore: Brückner Martin <1963-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity / / Martin Brückner Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2006
©2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
Disciplina: 911/.73
Soggetto geografico: United States Historical geography
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The geographic revolution in early America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908780-3-8
0-8078-3897-7
1-4696-0101-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910787351903321
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Serie: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia