The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and ... and the University of North Carolina Press)
By Martin Brückner.
Description
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 geography...
ISBN(s)
080785672X, 9780807856727
