The geographical imagination in America, 1880-1950 / Susan Schulten.
The geographical imagination in America, 1880-1950 / Susan Schulten.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Date
2001.
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N917.3/147
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English
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x, 319 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Introduction -- Pt. 1. Making Geography Modern -- 2. Maps for the Masses, 1880-1900 -- 3. Science, Culture, and Expansionism in the Making of the National Geographic, 1888-1900 -- 4. Creating the Science of Geography, 1880-1919 -- 5. School Geography, the "Mother of All Sciences," 1880-1914 -- Pt...
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
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Illinois
Date Published
2001.
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"What is the history of geography in this country? How have Americans been taught to see the world around them? Susan Schulten addresses these questions by examining how ideas and images shaped popular understandings of world geography from the 1880s to the 1950s, a critical period in history that saw the United States evolve from a relatively isol...
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The geographical imagination in America, 1880-1950 / Susan Schulten.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-308) and index.
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English.
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N917.3/147
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0226740552
9780226740553 (alk. paper)
0226740552 (alk. paper)
9780226740560 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226740560 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226740553
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917.3
917
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991013965309702626
