Mapping the nation: history and cartography in nineteenth-century america
Auteur :
Schulten, Susan
Éditeur :
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN :
9780226740683
Date de publication :
6 juil. 2012
Dimensions :
2,6 x 1,9 x 0,2 cm
Poids :
737 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. This title charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed the very meaning of a map.