The social life of maps in America, 1750-1860 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brückner, Martin, 1963- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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'.