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The geographic revolution in early America maps, literacy, and national identity
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Title
The geographic revolution in early America [electronic resource] : maps, literacy, and national identity / Martin Brückner.
ISBN
9781469601014
146960101X
9780807830000 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807830003 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807856727 (pbk. : alk. paper)
080785672X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, c2006. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 276 p. :) ill., maps ;
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Project MUSE – UPCC 2017 Archive Complete Supplement V.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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