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The Mapping of America
Author | : Seymour I. Schwartz,Ralph E. Ehrenberg |
Publsiher | : New York : H.N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : UOM:39015031596136 |
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Mapping American Culture
Author | : Wayne Franklin,Michael C. Steiner |
Publsiher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 158729074X |
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Mapping the Nation
Author | : Susan Schulten |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012-06-29 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780226740706 |
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“A compelling read” that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History). In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and thematic mapping in order to profile the ethnic, racial, economic, moral, and physical attributes of a reunified nation. By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps, an explicit recognition that old maps were not relics to be discarded but unique records of the nation’s past. All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map. Today, statistical and thematic maps are so ubiquitous that we take for granted that data will be arranged cartographically. Whether for urban planning, public health, marketing, or political strategy, maps have become everyday tools of social organization, governance, and economics. The world we inhabit—saturated with maps and graphic information—grew out of this sea change in spatial thought and representation in the nineteenth century, when Americans learned to see themselves and their nation in new dimensions.
Mapping Nature across the Americas
Author | : Kathleen A. Brosnan,James R. Akerman |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022669643X |
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Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, they are abstractions that capture someone’s idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. These very characteristics, however, give maps their importance for understanding how humans have interacted with the natural world, and give historical maps, especially, the power to provide rich insights into the relationship between humans and nature over time. That is just what is achieved in Mapping Nature across the Americas. Illustrated throughout, the essays in this book argue for greater analysis of historical maps in the field of environmental history, and for greater attention within the field of the history of cartography to the cultural constructions of nature contained within maps. This volume thus provides the first in-depth and interdisciplinary investigation of the relationship between maps and environmental knowledge in the Americas—including, for example, stories of indigenous cartography in Mexico, the allegorical presence of palm trees in maps of Argentina, the systemic mapping of US forests, and the scientific platting of Canada’s remote lands.
Mapping the Americas
Author | : Shari M. Huhndorf |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2009-07-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801448003 |
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In Mapping the Americas, Shari M. Huhndorf tracks changing conceptions of Native culture as it increasingly transcends national boundaries and takes up vital concerns such as global imperialism, and the commodification of indigenous cultures.
The First Mapping of America
Author | : Alex Johnson |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-08-23 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781786723215 |
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The First Mapping of America tells the story of the General Survey. At the heart of the story lie the remarkable maps and the men who made them - the commanding and highly professional Samuel Holland, Surveyor-General in the North, and the brilliant but mercurial William Gerard De Brahm, Surveyor-General in the South. Battling both physical and political obstacles, Holland and De Brahm sought to establish their place in the firmament of the British hierarchy. Yet the reality in which they had to operate was largely controlled from afar, by Crown administrators in London and the colonies and by wealthy speculators, whose approval or opposition could make or break the best laid plans as they sought to use the Survey for their own ends.
Mapping America
Author | : Frank Jacobs,Fritz Kessler,Duncan McCorquodale |
Publsiher | : Black Dog Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1907317082 |
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This atlas traces the formation and development of the U.S. over 500 years, from the time of the early European colonies through to the densely developed and influential country it is today. It also discusses the events leading to the discovery of North America. It looks at American cartography as well.
Mapping Latin America
Author | : Jordana Dym,Karl Offen |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2011-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226921815 |
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For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something—a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn’t, and to ask who made it, why, and for whom. The contributors to this new volume ask these sorts of questions about maps of Latin America, and in doing so illuminate the ways cartography has helped to shape this region from the Rio Grande to Patagonia. In Mapping Latin America,Jordana Dym and Karl Offen bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine and interpret more than five centuries of Latin American maps.Individual chapters take on maps of every size and scale and from a wide variety of mapmakers—from the hand-drawn maps of Native Americans, to those by famed explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt, to those produced in today’s newspapers and magazines for the general public. The maps collected here, and the interpretations that accompany them, provide an excellent source to help readers better understand how Latin American countries, regions, provinces, and municipalities came to be defined, measured, organized, occupied, settled, disputed, and understood—that is, how they came to have specific meanings to specific people at specific moments in time. The first book to deal with the broad sweep of mapping activities across Latin America, this lavishly illustrated volume will be required reading for students and scholars of geography and Latin American history, and anyone interested in understanding the significance of maps in human cultures and societies.