{"product_id":"the-geographic-revolution-in-early-america-maps-literacy-and-national-identity-9780807856727","title":"The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a pathbreaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres--written, for example, by William Byrd, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark--significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on historical geography, cartography, literary history, and material culture, Bruckner recovers a vibrant culture of geography consisting of property plats and surveying manuals, decorative wall maps and school geographies, the nation's first atlases, and sentimental objects such as needlework samplers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy showing how this geographic revolution affected the production of literature, Bruckner demonstrates that the internalization of geography as a kind of language helped shape the literary construction of the modern American subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmpirically rich and provocative in its readings, \u003ci\u003eThe Geographic Revolution in Early America\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a new, geographical basis for Anglo-Americans' understanding of their character and its expression in pedagogical and literary terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Brückner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Omohundro Institute and University of North C\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.18w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807856727\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrückner, Martin:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Martin Brückner is associate professor of English at the University of Delaware.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Omohundro Institute and University of North C","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40161669972083,"sku":"080785672X","price":56.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_68fa9230-e6a0-4801-8118-bb571209ecea.jpg?v=1654955897","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-geographic-revolution-in-early-america-maps-literacy-and-national-identity-9780807856727","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}