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The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950

By Susan Schulten

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0226740552, 9780226740553
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7650827 bytes)
Pages
330\329
Time added
2020-11-01 07:30:40

Description

In this rich and fascinating history, Susan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them, tracing U.S. attitudes toward world geography from the end of nineteenth-century exploration to the explosion of geographic interest before the dawn of the Cold War. Focusing her examination on four influential institutions—maps and atlases, the National Geographic Society, the American university, and public schools—Schulten provides an engaging study of geography, cartography, and their place in popular culture, politics, and education.

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