{"product_id":"the-geographic-revolution-in-early-martin-brckner-9780807856727","title":"The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Geographic Revolution in Early America\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a new, geographical basis for Anglo-Americans' understanding of their character and its expression in pedagogical and literary terms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Martin Br?ckner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080785672X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807856727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Omohundro Institute and Unc Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.18w x 0.70d","brand":"Martin Br?ckner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46094401536255,"sku":"9780807856727","price":37.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca767df8-6cfc-4c95-acd1-ee4833ea9be2.jpg?v=1724844546","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-geographic-revolution-in-early-martin-brckner-9780807856727","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}