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The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity / Martin Brückner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, (c)2006.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469601014
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • G1201 .G464 2006
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Contents:
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.
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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.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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