Author: Harm J. de Blij
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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The geography editor of "Good Morning America" looks at how geography will influence the future.

Author: William Gordon East
Publisher:
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Category : Historical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: J.W. Dawson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375161573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Author: William Gordon East
Publisher:
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Category : Historical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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Author: Henry Major
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Thomas CRAMPTON (and TURNER (Thomas) Schoolmaster.)
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Martin Brückner
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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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: Alastair Bonnett
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538160803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Geography is fundamental to understanding the way the world works. This text offers readers a short and highly accessible account of the ideas and concepts constituting geography. Including discussion of both the human and the natural realms, the text looks at key themes such as environment, space, and place—as well as geography's methods and the history of the discipline—showing us how and why they are essential for a thriving planet. Introductory but not simplified, Bonnett provides students with the ability to understand the history and context of the subject without any prior knowledge. This short, elegant book will be of interest to all readers intrigued by the “geographical imagination.”

Author: Lionel William Lyde
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Author: American Geographical Society
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ISBN: 9781258423858
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Contributing Authors Include W. M. Davis, Diamond Jenness, James Goldthwait, And Many Others.