The social life of maps in America, 1750-1860 / Martin Brückner.

In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A "carto-coded" America - a nation in which maps are pervasive and meaningful - had to be created. The S...

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Main Author: Brückner, Martin, 1963- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill : Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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505 0 |a Introducing the social life of American maps -- American mapworks -- The artisanal map, 1750-1815: workshops and shopkeepers from Lewis Evans to Samuel Lewis -- The manufactured map, 1790-1830: centralization and integration from Mathew Carey to John Melish -- The industrial map, 1820-1860: innovation and diversification from Henry S. Tanner to S. Augustus Mitchell -- The spectacle of maps -- Public giants: re-staging power and the theatricality of maps -- Private properties: ornamental maps and the decorum of interiority -- Self-made spectacles: the look of maps and cartographic visualcy -- The mobilization of maps -- Looking small and made to go: the atlas and the rise of the cartographic vade mecum -- Cartographic transfers: education and the art of mappery -- Cartoral arts and material metaphors -- Price table-maps and their sales prices, 1755-1860 -- Inventory of 'John Melish geographer and map publisher' 
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