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Mapping the Nation - History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
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Mapping the Nation - History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
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In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in
extraordinary new ways. Medical men mapped diseases to understand
epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate to uncover weather
patterns, and Northerners created slave maps to assess the power of
the South. And after the Civil War, federal agencies embraced
statistical and thematic mapping in order to profile the ethnic,
racial, economic, moral, and physical attributes of a reunified
nation. In Mapping the Nation, Susan Schulten charts how thematic
maps demonstrated the analytical potential of cartography. This
radical shift in spatial thought and representation opened the door
to the idea that maps were not just illustrations of data, but
visual tools that are uniquely equipped to convey complex ideas,
changing forever the very meaning of a map.
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