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Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Maps, charts & atlases
This volume offers an analysis of significant social and economic
items that have been computed according to county types. There is a
map for each state with the county type indicated for each county.
The extensive bibliography is arranged to permit all studies
bearing on individual counties to be keyed to data for each county.
Originally published in 1941. A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC
Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to
make available again books from our distinguished backlist that
were previously out of print. These editions are published
unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable
paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural
value.
Katarzyna Lecky explores how early modern British poets paid by the
state adapted inclusive modes of nationhood charted by inexpensive,
small-format maps. She explores chapbooks ('cheapbooks') by Edmund
Spenser, Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson, William Davenant, and John
Milton alongside the portable cartography circulating in the same
retail print industry. Domestic pocket maps were designed for heavy
use by a broad readership that included those on the fringes of
literacy. The era's de facto laureates all banked their success as
writers appealing to this burgeoning market share by drawing the
nation as the property of the commonwealth rather than the Crown.
This book investigates the accessible world of small-format
cartography as it emerges in the texts of the poets raised in the
expansive public sphere in which pocket maps flourished. It works
at the intersections of space, place, and national identity to
reveal the geographical imaginary shaping the flourishing business
of cheap print. Its placement of poetic economies within mainstream
systems of trade also demonstrates how cartography and poetry
worked together to mobilize average consumers as political agents.
This everyday form of geographic poiesis was also a strong platform
for poets writing for monarchs and magistrates when their visions
of the nation ran counter to the interests of the government.
For more than a century, the University of Wisconsin fielded
baseball teams. This comprehensive history combines colorful
stories from the archives, interviews with former players and
coaches, a wealth of historic photographs, and the statistics
beloved by fans of the game. The earliest intercollegiate varsity
sport at Wisconsin, the baseball team was founded in 1870, less
than a decade after the start of the Civil War. It dominated its
first league, made an unprecedented trip to Japan in 1909, survived
Wisconsin's chilly spring weather, two world wars, and perennial
budget crises, producing some of the finest players in Big Ten
history--and more than a few major leaguers. Fan traditions
included torchlight parades, kazoos, and the student band playing
"A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight" as early as 1901. There is
painful history here, too. African Americans played on Wisconsin's
first Big Ten championship team in 1902, including team captain
Julian Ware, but there were none on the team between 1904 and 1960.
Heartbreaking to many fans was the 1991 decision to discontinue
baseball as a varsity sport at the university. Today, Wisconsin is
the only member of the Big Ten conference without a men's baseball
team. Appendixes provide details of team records and coaches, All
Big Ten and All American selections, Badgers in the major leagues,
and Badgers in the amateur free-agent draft.
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