American Map 2001
Author : American Map Corporation
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 2001-09-01
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ISBN : 9780841697140
Author : American Map Corporation
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 2001-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780841697140
Author : American Map Corporation
Publisher : American Map
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2000-09
Category : Roads
ISBN : 9780841692992
Author : Agha Shahid Ali
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 1992-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393309249
A collection of poems dealing with the themes of journey, exile, myth, politics, history, and loss
Author : Robert French
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Roads
ISBN :
Summarizes the development of the American automobile road map, its significance to the national road system in the United States, and lists maps and cartographic materials that illustrate this history.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Government publications
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Author : Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2002*
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Author : Susan Schulten
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 022645875X
Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps invest information with meaning by translating it into visual form. They capture what people knew, what they thought they knew, what they hoped for, and what they feared. As such they offer unrivaled windows onto the past. In this book Susan Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of American history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age. With stunning visual clarity, A History of America in 100 Maps showcases the power of cartography to illuminate and complicate our understanding of the past. Gathered primarily from the British Library’s incomparable archives and compiled into nine chronological chapters, these one hundred full-color maps range from the iconic to the unfamiliar. Each is discussed in terms of its specific features as well as its larger historical significance in a way that conveys a fresh perspective on the past. Some of these maps were made by established cartographers, while others were made by unknown individuals such as Cherokee tribal leaders, soldiers on the front, and the first generation of girls to be formally educated. Some were tools of statecraft and diplomacy, and others were instruments of social reform or even advertising and entertainment. But when considered together, they demonstrate the many ways that maps both reflect and influence historical change. Audacious in scope and charming in execution, this collection of one hundred full-color maps offers an imaginative and visually engaging tour of American history that will show readers a new way of navigating their own worlds.
Author : J. Clark Archer
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
The Atlas of American Politics offers comprehensive coverage of district, state, and federal information sought by students, scholars, journalists, activists, and the public. Important statistics from the 1960-2000 U.S. censuses (which allows for the comparison of political administrations from the sixties forward) and other data sources are joined in more than 150 maps. The book balances the data by including historically situated text, offering unparalleled visual and textual explanation of recent American politics and government and their impact on American life. Coverage begins with background on contemporary politics and government and moves through discussions of presidential elections; Congress; the executive and judicial branches; federal, state, and local government; foreign policy; and social and economic policy.
Author : Jordana Dym
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0226921816
For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something—a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn’t, and to ask who made it, why, and for whom. The contributors to this new volume ask these sorts of questions about maps of Latin America, and in doing so illuminate the ways cartography has helped to shape this region from the Rio Grande to Patagonia. In Mapping Latin America,Jordana Dym and Karl Offen bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to examine and interpret more than five centuries of Latin American maps.Individual chapters take on maps of every size and scale and from a wide variety of mapmakers—from the hand-drawn maps of Native Americans, to those by famed explorers such as Alexander von Humboldt, to those produced in today’s newspapers and magazines for the general public. The maps collected here, and the interpretations that accompany them, provide an excellent source to help readers better understand how Latin American countries, regions, provinces, and municipalities came to be defined, measured, organized, occupied, settled, disputed, and understood—that is, how they came to have specific meanings to specific people at specific moments in time. The first book to deal with the broad sweep of mapping activities across Latin America, this lavishly illustrated volume will be required reading for students and scholars of geography and Latin American history, and anyone interested in understanding the significance of maps in human cultures and societies.