The History of Geography as a Subject in the Curriculum of the Elementary School From 1776 to 1860


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Excerpt from The History of Geography as a Subject in the Curriculum of the Elementary School From 1776 to 1860: A Dissertation, Submitted to the Faculty, of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Master of Arts, Department of Education 4. In Connecticut 3. Law of 1841 b. In Norwich o. In Hartford and East Bridgeport 5. In Rhoda Island a. In Providence b. In the academies 0. Law of 1845 6. In new'ybrk State a. In primary schools of New York City,1832 b. Textbooks used in New York, 1833 0. Laws of 1841 and 1847 d. Examination in geography required of teachers. 7. Opposition to subject in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts 8. The sanjeet in Virginia schools a. In the early academies b. Legalised by statute, 1846 6, Required by statute, 1849 9. In Horth Carolina a. Proposed legislation b. School act did not require geography 10. In Ohio a. Private schools of Akron Ba Taught in Cincinnati 1840. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




HIST OF GEOGRAPHY AS A SUBJECT


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Geography Now and Then


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The Geographic Revolution in Early America


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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.