The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226740560)

In this rich and fascinating history, Susan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them, tracing U.S. attitudes toward world geography from the end of nineteenth-century exploration to the explosion of geographic interest before the dawn of the Cold War. Focusing her examination on four influential institutions--maps and atlases, the National Geographic Society, the American university, and public schools--Schulten provides an engaging study of geography, cartography, and their place in popular culture, politics, and education.


Author: Susan Schulten
ISBN-10: 0226740560
ISBN-13: 9780226740560
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2002
Pages: 330
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.06w x 0.74d