Author: William DarbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
View of the United States, Historical, Geographical, and Statistical
Author: William DarbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Encyclopædia Americana
Author: Francis LieberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Encyclopædia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T.G. Bradford).
Author: Encyclopaedia AmericanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Mapping the Nation
Author: Susan SchultenPublisher: 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.
Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books, in the English, French, Spanish, and Italian Languages
Author: H.C. Carey & I. Lea (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Encyclopaedia Americana
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The Port Folio
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Hazard's United States Commercial and Statistical Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Maritime Geography and Statistics ...
Author: James Hingston TuckeyPublisher:
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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