The social life of maps in America, 1750-1860 /
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| Language: | English |
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Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press,
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ;
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing the social life of American maps
- American mapworks
- The artisanal map, 1750-1815: workshops and shopkeepers from Lewis Evans to Samuel Lewis
- The manufactured map, 1790-1830: centralization and integration from Mathew Carey to John Melish
- The industrial map, 1820-1860: innovation and diversification from Henry S. Tanner to S. Augustus Mitchell
- The spectacle of maps
- Public giants: re-staging power and the theatricality of maps
- Private properties: ornamental maps and the decorum of interiority
- Self-made spectacles: the look of maps and cartographic visualcy
- The mobilization of maps
- Looking small and made to go: the atlas and the rise of the cartographic vade mecum
- Cartographic transfers: education and the art of mappery
- Cartoral arts and material metaphors
- Price table-maps and their sales prices, 1755-1860
- Inventory of 'John Melish geographer and map publisher'.