Geographic Revolution in Early America
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first American atlas
George Washington
Henry Popple
individualism
Isaac Watts
James Madison
James Otis
Jedidiah Morse
Johann Amos Comenius
John Jay
John Locke
John Mitchell
Joseph Lancaster
Joseph Worcester
Manifest Destiny
map-makers
Mathew Carey
Meriwether Lewis
Monroe Doctrine
Nathaniel Evans
Nicholas King
Patrick Gordon
Philadelphia
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferys
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- ISBN 9780807856727
- Weight: 423g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2006
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among non elite Americans. In a path breaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s. Drawing on historical geography, cartography, literary history, and material culture, Bruckner recovers a vibrant culture of geography consisting of property plats and surveying manuals, decorative wall maps and school geographies, the nation's first atlases, and sentimental objects such as needlework samplers. By showing how this geographic revolution affected the production of literature, Bruckner demonstrates that the internalization of geography as a kind of language helped shape the literary construction of the modern American subject. Empirically rich and provocative in its readings, ""The Geographic Revolution in Early America"" proposes a new, geographical basis for Anglo-Americans' understanding of their character and its expression in pedagogical and literary terms.
Martin Bruckner is associate professor of English and material culture studies at the University of Delaware.
