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Author : Michael P. Conzen
Release : 2007
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mapping Manifest Destiny by : Michael P. Conzen
Download or read book Mapping Manifest Destiny written by Michael P. Conzen. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exhibition at the Newberry Library November 3, 2007-February 16, 2008"
Author : Sandy Phan
Release : 2013-10-30
Genre : Map reading
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 369/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mapping Our Nation by : Sandy Phan
Download or read book Mapping Our Nation written by Sandy Phan. This book was released on 2013-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers learn about the different areas of the United States in this stimulating library bound book. Featuring vividly colored examples of various maps, including physical, political, and thematic, this book will have readers engaged and inspired to learn more about the different parts of the U.S. and to create a map of their own!
Author : Janey Levy
Release : 2005-12-15
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 164/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mapping Americas Westward Expansion by : Janey Levy
Download or read book Mapping Americas Westward Expansion written by Janey Levy. This book was released on 2005-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the discovery and exploration of North America, focusing on the detailed maps created and used during this time.
Author : Matthew H. Edney
Release : 2019-04-12
Genre : Technology & Engineering
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 71X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cartography by : Matthew H. Edney
Download or read book Cartography written by Matthew H. Edney. This book was released on 2019-04-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In his most ambitious work to date, [Edney] questions the very concept of ‘cartography’ to argue that this flawed ideal has hobbled the study of maps.” —Susan Schulten, author of A History of America in 100 Maps Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has produced these volumes, Matthew H. Edney has a unique vantage point for understanding what “cartography” has come to mean and include. In this book Edney disavows the term cartography, rejecting the notion that maps represent an undifferentiated category of objects for study. Rather than treating maps as a single, unified group, he argues, scholars need to take a processual approach that examines specific types of maps—sea charts versus thematic maps, for example—in the context of the unique circumstances of their production, circulation, and consumption. To illuminate this bold argument, Edney chronicles precisely how the ideal of cartography that has developed in the West since 1800 has gone astray. By exposing the flaws in this ideal, his book challenges everyone who studies maps and mapping practices to reexamine their approach to the topic. The study of cartography will never be the same. “[An] intellectually bracing and marvellously provocative account of how the mythical ideal of cartography developed over time and, in the process, distorted our understanding of maps.” —Times Higher Education “Cartography: The Ideal and Its History offers both a sharp critique of current practice and a call to reorient the field of map studies. A landmark contribution.” —Kären Wigen, coeditor of Time in Maps
Author : Shane Mountjoy
Release : 2009
Genre : Electronic books
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 836/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Manifest Destiny by : Shane Mountjoy
Download or read book Manifest Destiny written by Shane Mountjoy. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the population of the 13 colonies grew and the economy developed, the desire to expand into new land increased. Nineteenth-century Americans believed it was their divine right to expand their territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. "Manifest destiny," a phrase first used in 1839 by journalist John O'Sullivan, embodied the belief that God had given the people of the United States a mission to spread a republican democracy across the continent. Advocates of manifest destiny were determined to carry out their mission and instigated several wars, including the war with Mexico to win much of what is now the southwestern United States. In Manifest Destiny: Westward Expansion, learn how this philosophy to spread out across the land shaped our nation.
