The social life of maps in America, 1750-1860 /Martin Brückner.

By:

Brückner, Martin, 1963- [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Williamsburg, Virginia : Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469632612

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Electronic Books.

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GA105 .S635 2017

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Contents:

American mapworks -- The artisanal map, 1750-1815: workshops and shopkeepers from Lewis Evans to Samuel Lewis -- The manufactured map, 1790-1830: centralization and integration from Mathew Carey to John Melish -- The industrial map, 1820-1860: innovation and diversification from Henry S. Tanner to S. Augustus Mitchell -- The spectacle of maps -- Public giants: re-staging power and the theatricality of maps -- Private properties: ornamental maps and the decorum of interiority -- Self-made spectacles: the look of maps and cartographic visualcy -- The mobilization of maps -- Looking small and made to go: the atlas and the rise of the cartographic vade mecum -- Cartographic transfers: education and the art of mappery -- Cartoral arts and material metaphors -- Price table-maps and their sales prices, 1755-1860 -- Inventory of 'John Melish geographer and map publisher'.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introducing the social life of American maps -- American mapworks -- The artisanal map, 1750-1815: workshops and shopkeepers from Lewis Evans to Samuel Lewis -- The manufactured map, 1790-1830: centralization and integration from Mathew Carey to John Melish -- The industrial map, 1820-1860: innovation and diversification from Henry S. Tanner to S. Augustus Mitchell -- The spectacle of maps -- Public giants: re-staging power and the theatricality of maps -- Private properties: ornamental maps and the decorum of interiority -- Self-made spectacles: the look of maps and cartographic visualcy -- The mobilization of maps -- Looking small and made to go: the atlas and the rise of the cartographic vade mecum -- Cartographic transfers: education and the art of mappery -- Cartoral arts and material metaphors -- Price table-maps and their sales prices, 1755-1860 -- Inventory of 'John Melish geographer and map publisher'.

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