The Geographic Revolution in Early America – Maps, Literacy, and National Identity
Maps, Literacy, and National Identity
Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1, New edition
- Publisher MP–NCA Uni of North Carolina
- Date of Publication 28 February 2006
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780807856727
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 234x156x17 mm
- Weight 423 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among non elite Americans. This illustrated book argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s.
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"The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among non elite Americans. In a path breaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s. Drawing on historical geography, cartography, literary history, and material culture, Bruckner recovers a vibrant culture of geography consisting of property plats and surveying manuals, decorative wall maps and school geographies, the nation's first atlases, and sentimental objects such as needlework samplers. By showing how this geographic revolution affected the production of literature, Bruckner demonstrates that the internalization of geography as a kind of language helped shape the literary construction of the modern American subject. Empirically rich and provocative in its readings, """"The Geographic Revolution in Early America"""" proposes a new, geographical basis for Anglo-Americans' understanding of their character and its expression in pedagogical and literary terms."
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