Publication

2001 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

79,750 words, Guess

Page Count

319 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivegeographicalimag0000schu
  • ISBN-139780226740560
  • ISBN-100226740552
  • ISBN-100226740560
  • ISBN-139780226740553
and 7 more
  • Goodreads4739855', '1891817
  • LibraryThing1166431
  • Library of Congress Control Number00010159
  • OCLC Control Number44578714
  • Better World Books9780226740560
  • Better World Books9780226740553
  • Open LibraryOL6776668M

Classifications

  • DDC917
  • LCCG96 .S36 2001
  • LCCG96.S36 2001

Description

"What is the history of geography in this country? How have Americans been taught to see the world around them? Susan Schulten addresses these questions by examining how ideas and images shaped popular understandings of world geography from the 1880s to the 1950s, a critical period in history that saw the United States evolve from a relatively isolationist nation to an international, economic superpower. Schulten examines four enduring institutions of learning that produced some of the most influential sources of geographic knowledge in modern history: maps and atlases, the National Geographic Society, the American university, and public schools."--BOOK JACKET.

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