The Mapping of North America
Author | : Philip D. Burden |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Cartography |
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Author | : Philip D. Burden |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Cartography |
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Author | : Paul Rockett |
Publisher | : Mapping the Continents |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780778726166 |
"First published in 2015 by The Watts Publishing Group"--Title page verso.
Author | : Alex Johnson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786733218 |
The First Mapping of America tells the story of the General Survey. At the heart of the story lie the remarkable maps and the men who made them - the commanding and highly professional Samuel Holland, Surveyor-General in the North, and the brilliant but mercurial William Gerard De Brahm, Surveyor-General in the South. Battling both physical and political obstacles, Holland and De Brahm sought to establish their place in the firmament of the British hierarchy. Yet the reality in which they had to operate was largely controlled from afar, by Crown administrators in London and the colonies and by wealthy speculators, whose approval or opposition could make or break the best laid plans as they sought to use the Survey for their own ends.
Author | : John Goss |
Publisher | : Secaucus, N.J. : Wellfleet Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781555216726 |
Describes and reproduces early maps of North America, its regions and cities, from the earliest woodcuts to detailed nineteenth-century maps
Author | : Susan Schulten |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2012-06-29 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0226740706 |
“A compelling read” that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History). In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and thematic mapping in order to profile the ethnic, racial, economic, moral, and physical attributes of a reunified nation. By the end of the century, Congress had authorized a national archive of maps, an explicit recognition that old maps were not relics to be discarded but unique records of the nation’s past. All of these experiments involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas and information. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten 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. Today, statistical and thematic maps are so ubiquitous that we take for granted that data will be arranged cartographically. Whether for urban planning, public health, marketing, or political strategy, maps have become everyday tools of social organization, governance, and economics. The world we inhabit—saturated with maps and graphic information—grew out of this sea change in spatial thought and representation in the nineteenth century, when Americans learned to see themselves and their nation in new dimensions.
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ISBN | : 9781531175382 |
Author | : Albert W. Bally |
Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0813754453 |
Summaries of the major features of the geology of North America and the adjacent oceanic regions are presented in 20 chapters. Topics covered include concise reviews of current thinking about Precambrian basement, Phanerozoic orogens, cratonic basins, passive-margin geology of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions, marine and terrestrial geology of the Caribbean region and economic geology.
Author | : Paul Rockett |
Publisher | : Mapping the Continents |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780778726227 |
Get a close-up look at the people and places of North America. Detailed photos and full-color maps feature the climate, population, natural resources, political boundaries, land formations, and culture of various regions. Book jacket.
Author | : Philip D. Burden |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : 9780952773306 |
Author | : Philip D. Burden |
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Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Cartography |
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