The geographic revolution in early America : maps, literacy, and national identity /
Brückner, Martin,1963-
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press,
c2006.
Introduction : the geographic revolution in the wilderness -- The surveyed self : geodesy, writing, and colonial identity in eighteenth-century British America -- The continent speaks : geography, oratory, and the figuration of identity in revolutionary America -- Maps, spellers, and the semiotics of nationalism in the early republic -- Geography textbooks and reading national character -- Novel geographies of the republic -- Native American geographies and the journals of Lewis and Clark -- Literacy for empire : geography, education, and the aesthetic of territoriality.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical geography
Cartography