Название: A History of America in 100 Maps
Автор: Susan Schulten
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022645861X
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 273
Размер: 77,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps invest information with meaning by translating it into visual form. They capture what people knew, what they thought they knew, what they hoped for, and what they feared. As such they offer unrivaled windows onto the past.
In this book Susan Schulten uses maps to explore five centuries of American history, from the voyages of European discovery to the digital age. With stunning visual clarity, A History of America in 100 Maps showcases the power of cartography to illuminate and complicate our understanding of the past.