The social life of maps in America, 1750-1860 /
In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of exposure and instruction. A "carto-coded" America - a nation in which maps are pervasive and meaningful - had to be created. The S...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Williamsburg, Virginia : Chapel Hill :
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Preface. Introducing the social life of American maps
- Part One. 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
- Part Two. 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
- Part Three. 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
- Epilogue. Cartoral arts and material metaphors
- Appendix 1. Price table--maps and their sales prices, 1755-1860
- Appendix 2. Inventory of "John Melish geographer and map publisher".