| 說明 |
xvii, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| 附註 |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Introducing the social life of American maps -- American mapworks -- The artisanal map, 1750-1815: workshops and shopkeepers from Lewis Evans to Samuel Lewis -- The manufactured map, 1790-1830: centralization and integration from Mathew Carey to John Melish -- The industrial map, 1820-1860: innovation and diversification from Henry S. Tanner to S. Augustus Mitchell -- The spectacle of maps -- Public giants: re-staging power and the theatricality of maps -- Private properties: ornamental maps and the decorum of interiority -- Self-made spectacles: the look of maps and cartographic visualcy -- The mobilization of maps -- Looking small and made to go: the atlas and the rise of the cartographic vade mecum -- Cartographic transfers: education and the art of mappery -- Cartoral arts and material metaphors -- Price table-maps and their sales prices, 1755-1860 -- Inventory of "John Melish geographer and map publisher" |
| 主題 |
Cartography -- United States -- History
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Cartographers -- United States -- History
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