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Professor and Chair Susan Schulten (University of Denver)

A History of America in 100 Maps

Professor and Chair Susan Schulten (University of Denver)

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University of Chicago Press
21 September 2018
History; History of the Americas; Cartography, map-making & projections
Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps invest information with meaning by translating it into visual form. They capture what people knew, what they thought they knew, what they hoped for, and what they feared. As such they offer unrivaled windows onto the past.

In this book Susan Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of American history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age. With stunning visual clarity, A History of America in 100 Maps showcases the power of cartography to illuminate and complicate our understanding of the past.

Gathered primarily from the British Library's incomparable archives and compiled into nine chronological chapters, these one hundred full-color maps range from the iconic to the unfamiliar. Each is discussed in terms of its specific features as well as its larger historical significance in a way that conveys a fresh perspective on the past. Some of these maps were made by established cartographers, while others were made by unknown individuals such as Cherokee tribal leaders, soldiers on the front, and the first generation of girls to be formally educated. Some were tools of statecraft and diplomacy, and others were instruments of social reform or even advertising and entertainment. But when considered together, they demonstrate the many ways that maps both reflect and influence historical change.

Audacious in scope and charming in execution, this collection of one hundred full-color maps offers an imaginative and visually engaging tour of American history that will show readers a new way of navigating their own worlds.
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Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication:   United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions:   Height: 282mm,  Width: 224mm,  Spine: 33mm
Weight:   1.597kg
ISBN:   9780226458618
ISBN 10:   022645861X
Pages:   256
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Susan Schulten is professor of history at the University of Denver. She is the author of Mapping the Nation: History andCartography in Nineteenth-Century America and The Geographical Imagination inAmerica, 1880-1950, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews for A History of America in 100 Maps

Lavish and fascinating. --Economist Maps often capture history much more economically than any narrative. This is Schulten's premise, which she supports by offering 100 cartographic snapshots of America from the European arrival to the digital age. --New York Times . . . Several fascinating and rare examples included in A History of America in 100 Maps. Any one may make readers rethink what they know about how the nation came to be. --Wall Street Journal


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