Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

by Susan Schulten

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In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped slavery to assess the power of the South. After the Civil War, federal agencies embraced statistical and thematic mapping...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:022610396X

ISBN13:9780226103969

Release Date:September 2013

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:1.18 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"

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