The American Gazetteer, Exhibiting, in Alphabetical Order, a Much More Full and Accurate Account, Than Has Been Given, of the States, Provinces, Counties, Cities ... on the American Continent, Also of the West-India Islands, and Other Islands Appendant to the Continent, and Those Newly Discovered in the Pacific Ocean, Describing the Extent ... of the Several Countries ... with a Particular Description of the Georgia Western Territory ...
The American Gazetteer, Exhibiting, in Alphabetical Order, a Much More Full and Accurate Account, Than Has Been Given, of the States, Provinces, Counties, Cities ... on the American Continent, Also of the West-India Islands, and Other Islands Appendant to the Continent, and Those Newly Discovered in the Pacific Ocean, Describing the Extent ... of the Several Countries ... with a Particular Description of the Georgia Western Territory ...

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The Geographic Revolution in Early America
The Geographic Revolution in Early America

Author: Martin Brückner

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0807838977

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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 nonelite Americans. In a pathbreaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres--written, for example, by William Byrd, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark--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.