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Language: en
Pages: 334
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Schulten examines four enduring institutions of learning that produced some of the most influential sources of geographic knowledge in modern history: maps and
A History of America in 100 Maps
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Susan Schulten
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-21 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate dis
Mapping the Nation
Language: en
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Authors: Susan Schulten
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-29 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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“A compelling read” that reveals how maps became informational tools charting everything from epidemics to slavery (Journal of American History). In the nin
Genocide and the Geographical Imagination
Language: en
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This groundbreaking book brings an important spatial perspective to our understanding of genocide through a fresh interpretation of Germany under Hitler, Cambod
Picturing America
Language: en
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Authors: Stephen J. Hornsby
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-23 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Instructive, amusing, colorful—pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees