Author: United States Coast Survey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year ...
Author: United States Coast Survey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Report of The Superintendent of the Coast Survey showing the progress of the Survey during the Year 1862
Author: United States Coast Survey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752582790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752582790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.
Report of The Superintendent of the Coast Survey showing the progress of the Survey during the Year 1863
Author: United States Coast Survey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752582804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752582804
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.
Mapping the Nation
Author: Susan Schulten
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226740706
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
“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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226740706
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
“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.
Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
House Documents
Author: United States House of Representatives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States
Author: United States. Department of State
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Author: Royal Society (London)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description