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The geographic revolution in early America

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Title The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity / Martin Brückner.
Publisher Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press
Creation Date 2006
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content 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.
Series Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
Extent 1 online resource (293 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2006
National Library system number 997010716532605171
MARC RECORDS
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