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Civic Discipline - Geography in America, 1860-1890 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Civic Discipline - Geography in America, 1860-1890 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The American Geographical Society was the pre-eminent geographical
society in the nineteenth-century U.S. This book explores how
geographical knowledge and practices took shape as a civic
enterprise, under the leadership of Charles P. Daly, AGS president
for 35 years (1864-1899). The ideals and programmatic interests of
the AGS link to broad institutional, societal, and spatial contexts
that drove interest in geography itself in the post-Civil War
period, and also link to Charles Daly's personal role as New York
civic leader, scholar, revered New York judge, and especially,
popularizer of geography. Daly's leadership in a number of civic
and social reform causes resonated closely with his work as
geographer, such as his influence in tenement housing and street
sanitation reform in New York City. Others of his projects served
commercial interests, including in American railroad development
and colonization of the African Congo. Daly was also New York's
most influential access point to the Arctic in the latter
nineteenth century. Through telling the story of the
nineteenth-century AGS and Charles Daly, this book provides a
critical appraisal of the role of particular actors, institutions,
and practices involved in the development and promotion of
geography in the mid-nineteenth century U.S. that is long overdue.
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