Mapping the Nation : History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America.

In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty among st...

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Author / Creator: Schulten, Susan.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.
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