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Author : John Love
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Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book Geodaesia written by John Love and published by . This book was released on 1688 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Love
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Total Pages : 207 pages
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422372937
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (729 download)
Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 149, no. 3, 2005) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Brückner
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838977
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Geographic Revolution in Early America written by Martin Brückner and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. In 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. Drawing 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. By 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. Empirically rich and provocative in its readings, The Geographic Revolution in Early America proposes a new, geographical basis for Anglo-Americans' understanding of their character and its expression in pedagogical and literary terms.
Author : Jennifer Van Horn
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469629577
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America written by Jennifer Van Horn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America investigates these diverse artifacts—from portraits and city views to gravestones, dressing furniture, and prosthetic devices—to explore how elite American consumers assembled objects to form a new civil society on the margins of the British Empire. In this interdisciplinary transatlantic study, artifacts emerge as key players in the formation of Anglo-American communities and eventually of American citizenship. Deftly interweaving analysis of images with furniture, architecture, clothing, and literary works, Van Horn reconstructs the networks of goods that bound together consumers in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. Moving beyond emulation and the desire for social status as the primary motivators for consumption, Van Horn shows that Anglo-Americans' material choices were intimately bound up with their efforts to distance themselves from Native Americans and African Americans. She also traces women's contested place in forging provincial culture. As encountered through a woman's application of makeup at her dressing table or an amputee's donning of a wooden leg after the Revolutionary War, material artifacts were far from passive markers of rank or political identification. They made Anglo-American society.
Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317474163
Total Pages : 3151 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History written by James Ciment and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 3151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No era in American history has been more fascinating to Americans, or more critical to the ultimate destiny of the United States, than the colonial era. Between the time that the first European settlers established a colony at Jamestown in 1607 through the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the outlines of America's distinctive political culture, economic system, social life, and cultural patterns had begun to emerge. Designed to complement the high school American history curriculum as well as undergraduate survey courses, "Colonial America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History" captures it all: the people, institutions, ideas, and events of the first three hundred years of American history. While it focuses on the thirteen British colonies stretching along the Atlantic, Colonial America sets this history in its larger contexts. Entries also cover Canada, the American Southwest and Mexico, and the Caribbean and Atlantic world directly impacting the history of the thirteen colonies. This encyclopedia explores the complete early history of what would become the United States, including portraits of Native American life in the immediate pre-contact period, early Spanish exploration, and the first settlements by Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, and English colonists. This monumental five-volume set brings America's colonial heritage vibrantly to life for today's readers. It includes: thematic essays on major issues and topics; detailed A-Z entries on hundreds of people, institutions, events, and ideas; thematic and regional chronologies; hundreds of illustrations; primary documents; and a glossary and multiple indexes.
Author : Andrew Macnair
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1909686743
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire written by Andrew Macnair and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews. For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the late 18th century, the county was the basic unit for mapping in Britain and the period witnessed several episodes of comprehensive map making. The map which forms the subject of this book followed on from a large number of previous maps of the county but was greatly superior to them in terms of quality and detail. It was published in a variety of forms, in nine sheets with an additional index map, over a period of 60 years. No other maps of Hertfordshire were produced during the rest of the century, but the Board of Ordnance, later the Ordnance Survey, established in the 1790s, began to survey the Hertfordshire area in 1799, publishing the first maps covering the county between 1805 and 1834. The OS came to dominate map making in Britain but, of all the maps of Hertfordshire, that produced by Dury and Andrews was the first to be surveyed at a sufficiently large scale to really allow those dwelling in the county to visualize their own parish, local topography and even their own house, and its place in the wider landscape. The first section examines the context of the map’s production and its place in cartographic history, and describes the creation of a new, digital version of the map which can be accessed online . The second part describes various ways in which this electronic version can be interrogated, in order to throw important new light on Hertfordshire’s landscape and society, both in the middle decades of the eighteenth century when it was produced, and in more remote periods. The attached DVD contains over a dozen maps which have been derived from the digital version, and which illustrate many of the issues discussed in the text, as well as related material which should likewise be useful to students of landscape history, historical geography and local history.
Author : Richardus
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351421042
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Project Surveying written by Richardus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text for the student & the professional.
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Total Pages : 207 pages
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Download or read book Geodæsia written by and published by . This book was released on 1771 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Daniel Eddy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226828352
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Media and the Mind written by Matthew Daniel Eddy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated argument that reveals notebooks as extraordinary paper machines that transformed knowledge on the page and in the mind. Information is often characterized as facts that float effortlessly across time and space. But before the nineteenth century, information was seen as a process that included a set of skills enacted through media on a daily basis. How, why, and where were these mediated facts and skills learned? Concentrating on manuscripts created by students in Scotland between 1700 and 1830, Matthew Daniel Eddy argues that notebooks functioned as workshops where notekeepers learned to judge the accuracy, utility, and morality of the data they encountered. He shows that, in an age preoccupied with "enlightened" values, the skills and materials required to make and use notebooks were not simply aids to reason—they were part of reason itself. Covering a rich selection of material and visual media ranging from hand-stitched bindings to watercolor paintings, the book problematizes John Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank piece of paper, the tabula rasa. Although one of the most recognizable metaphors of the British Enlightenment, scholars seldom consider why it was so successful for those who used it. Eddy makes a case for using the material culture of early modern manuscripts to expand the meaning of the metaphor in a way that offers a clearer understanding of the direct relationship that existed between thinking and notekeeping. Starting in the home, moving to schools, and then ending with universities, the book explores this argument by reconstructing the relationship between media and the mind from the bottom up.
Author : Maine State Library
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Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Maine State Library written by Maine State Library and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luis Lobo-Guerrero
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153814641X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires written by Luis Lobo-Guerrero and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to collectively explore how maps can be used to understand the making of European empires, how the epistemological practices embedded in them can be approached to understand European imperial space-making, and how maps can be seen as representations of imaginaries of connectivity. Rehearsing mapping’s past and its multifarious relations with European imperial orders is not merely an historical exercise to contribute to a global history of cartography. What binds the several interventions is rather an awareness that looking at a particular moment of the past with composite methodologies and interdisciplinary gazes may harbour potential discoveries on the context-embedded relations between mapping, connectivity, and European empire to which we are not yet attuned. By exploring the imaginaries of the world in the mapping of Western modern empires, the book also links to the burgeoning literature on the history of international relations and empire. The emphasis on empires serves here as an important corrigendum for IR’s state centrism and Eurocentrism and contributes to further erode the myth of Westphalia.
Author : Diane Shaw
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801879258
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (792 download)
Download or read book City Building on the Eastern Frontier written by Diane Shaw and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the same time, she analyzes how these priorities resulted in a new approach to urban planning."--Jacket.
Author : Arthur S. Lefkowitz
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 1611210038
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Benedict Arnold's Army written by Arthur S. Lefkowitz and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “brilliant” account of Benedict Arnold’s military campaign to bring Canada into the Revolutionary War is “hard to put down”—includes maps (Mag Web). In 1775, Benedict Arnold led more than one thousand men through the Maine wilderness in order to reach Quebec, the capital of British-held Canada. His goal was to reach the fortress city and bring Canada into the Revolutionary War as the fourteenth colony. When George Washington learned of a route to Quebec that followed a chain of rivers and lakes through the Maine wilderness, he picked Col. Benedict Arnold to command the surprise assault. The route to Canada was 270 miles of rapids, waterfalls, and dense forests that took months to traverse. Arnold led his famished corps through early winter snow and waist-high freezing water, up and over the Appalachian Mountains, and finally, to Quebec. In Benedict Arnold’s Army, award-winning author Arthur S. Lefkowitz traces the troops’ grueling journey, examining Arnold’s character at the time and how this campaign influenced him later in the Revolutionary War. After multiple trips to the route Arnold’s army took, Lefkowitz also includes detailed information and maps for readers to follow the expedition’s route from the coast of Main to Quebec City.
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Author : Nancy Quam-Wickham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book A Day in the Life of an American Worker [2 volumes] written by Nancy Quam-Wickham and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the history of work in America illuminates the many important roles that men and women of all backgrounds have played in the formation of the United States. A Day in the Life of an American Worker: 200 Trades and Professions through History allows readers to imagine the daily lives of ordinary workers, from the beginnings of colonial America to the present. It presents the stories of millions of Americans—from the enslaved field hands in antebellum America to the astronauts of the modern "space age"—as they contributed to the formation of the modern and culturally diverse United States. Readers will learn about individual occupations and discover the untold histories of those women and men who too often have remained anonymous to historians but whose stories are just as important as those of leaders whose lives we study in our classrooms. This book provides specific details to enable comprehensive understanding of the benefits and downsides of each trade and profession discussed. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering vivid testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.
Author : John Love
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Total Pages : 288 pages
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Download or read book Geodæsia: Or, The Art of Surveying and Measuring Land Made Easy written by John Love and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marguerite Holloway
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393071251
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor written by Marguerite Holloway and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of an unrecognized, 19th-century genius, the man who plotted Manhattan's famous city grid.
