The Geographic Revolution in Early America

The Geographic Revolution in Early America
Author: Martin Brückner
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807830003

The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among non elite Americans. This illustrated book argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s.