The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity / / Martin Brückner
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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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| 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 |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8078-3897-7 |
| 1-4696-0101-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910460759203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia