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The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950
ISBN: 9780226740560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In this rich and fascinating history, Susan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them, tracing U.S. attitudes toward world geography from the end of nineteenth-century exploration to the explosion of geographic interest before the dawn of the Cold War. Focusing her examination on four influential institutions maps and atlases, the National Geographic Society, the American university, and public schools Schulten provides an engaging study of geography, cartography, and their place in popular culture, politics, and education.
" In this rich and fascinating history, Susan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them, tracing U.S. attitudes toward ...
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160,65 zł |
Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: 9780226103969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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... In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and pre... |
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149,94 zł |
Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: 9780226740683 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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... In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and pre... |
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428,40 zł |
Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People's History, Volume 2 from 1865
ISBN: 9780190280963 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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447,53 zł |
Constructing the American Past: A Sourcebook of a People's History, Volume 1 to 1877
ISBN: 9780190280956 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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447,53 zł |