The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity
The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among non elite Americans. This illustrated book argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s
Map, English, ©2006
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2006
Maps
ix, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
9780807830000, 9780807856727, 0807830003, 080785672X
61237368
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