Citizens and Rulers of the World
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1890s US history
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American childhoods
archival politics
artifacts of childhood
Author_Mahshid Mayar
C19 print culture
C19 US history
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child entertainment
child literacy
children as consumers
children of the past
children's experiences
children's toys
children’s experiences
children’s toys
Clara Barbara Kirchwey
cognitive mapping
cultural geography of US Empire
cultural history
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geographic literacy
geographies of empire
geopolitics
historical childhood studies
history of education
history of geography
imperial pedagogy
juvenile periodicals
map games
maps of empire
modern geography
new empire studies
Peter Parley
Richard Elwood Dodge
Sam Loyd
school geography
transnational American Studies
US Empire
visual culture of empire
William Morris Davis
world geography knowledge
Product details
- ISBN 9781469667270
- Weight: 563g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 29 Mar 2022
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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By delving into the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize any political project as rampant as empire, this thought-provoking study focuses on children and their ambivalent, intimate relationships with maps and practices of mapping at the dawn of the "American Century."
Considering children as students, map and puzzle makers, letter writers, and playmates, Mahshid Mayar interrogates the ways turn-of-the-century American children encountered, made sense of, and produced spatial narratives and cognitive maps of the United States and the world. Mayar further probes how children's diverse patterns of consuming, relating to, and appropriating the "truths" that maps represent turned cartography into a site of personal and political contention.
To investigate where in the world the United States imagined itself at the end of the nineteenth century, this book calls for new modes of mapping the United States as it studies the nation on regional, hemispheric, and global scales. By examining the multilayered liaison between imperial pedagogy and geopolitical literacy across a wide range of archival evidence, Mayar delivers a careful microhistorical study of U.S. empire.
Considering children as students, map and puzzle makers, letter writers, and playmates, Mahshid Mayar interrogates the ways turn-of-the-century American children encountered, made sense of, and produced spatial narratives and cognitive maps of the United States and the world. Mayar further probes how children's diverse patterns of consuming, relating to, and appropriating the "truths" that maps represent turned cartography into a site of personal and political contention.
To investigate where in the world the United States imagined itself at the end of the nineteenth century, this book calls for new modes of mapping the United States as it studies the nation on regional, hemispheric, and global scales. By examining the multilayered liaison between imperial pedagogy and geopolitical literacy across a wide range of archival evidence, Mayar delivers a careful microhistorical study of U.S. empire.
Mahshid Mayar is assistant professor of American studies at Universitat Bielefeld, Germany, and research fellow at the English Department, Amherst College, Massachusetts.
