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The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860
ISBN: 9781469632605 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A "carto-coded" America--a nation in which maps are pervasive and meaningful--had to be created. The Social Life of Maps tracks American cartography's spectacular rise to its unprecedented cultural influence.
Between 1750 and 1860, maps did more than communicate geographic information and political pretensions. They became affordable and intelligible to ordinary American men and women looking... In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long p...
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301,25 zł |
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The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity
ISBN: 9780807856727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. In a pathbreaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres--written, for example, by William Byrd, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark--significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s.
Drawing on historical... The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. ...
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205,40 zł |
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Early American Cartographies
ISBN: 9780807834695 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Maps were at the heart of cultural life in the Americas from before colonization to the formation of modern nation-states. The fourteen essays in Early American Cartographies examine indigenous and European peoples' creation and use of maps to better represent and understand the world they inhabited.
Drawing from both current historical interpretations and new interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection provides diverse approaches to understanding the multilayered exchanges that went into creating cartographic knowledge in and about the Americas. In the introduction,... Maps were at the heart of cultural life in the Americas from before colonization to the formation of modern nation-states. The fourteen essays in E...
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438,18 zł |
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American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900
ISBN: 9781611493184 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores intersections between geography and American literary history from the earliest geographic chronicles of the New World to the massive geopolitical imaginings of the 1890s. By foregrounding the unsteady nature of geographical boundaries, the physical and imaginary migrations that coexisted with literary nationalism, and the changing attitudes toward geographical settings, the essays in American Literary Geographies present textual, theoretical, and contextual alternatives to existing exceptionalist accounts of U.S. culture. Beginning with...
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores intersections between geography and American literary history from the earliest geographic chroni...
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579,92 zł |
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Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing
ISBN: 9781517910907 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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125,87 zł |
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Modelwork: The Material Culture of Making and Knowing
ISBN: 9781517910891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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519,44 zł |
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