Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America by Susan Schulten

Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America

Susan Schulten

272 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educator...

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