American Iconographic: National Geographic, Global Culture, and the Visual Imagination

(Part of the Cultural Frames, Framing Culture Series)

by Stephanie L. Hawkins

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In an era before affordable travel, National Geographic not only served as the first glimpse of countless other worlds for its readers, but it helped them confront sweeping historical change. There was a time when its cover, with the unmistakable yellow frame, seemed to be on every coffee table, in every waiting room. In American Iconographic, Stephanie L. Hawkins traces National Geographic's rise to cultural prominence, from its...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0813929660

ISBN13:9780813929668

Release Date:June 2010

Publisher:University of Virginia Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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