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Mapping the Nation (Hardcover, New)
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Mapping the Nation (Hardcover, New)
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In the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically
new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to
understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate
and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past
to foster national loyalty among students, and Northerners mapped
slavery to assess the power of the South. 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. By the end of the century,
Congress had authorized a national archive of maps, an explicit
recognition that old maps were not relics to be discarded but
unique records of the nation's past. All of these experiments
involved the realization that maps were not just illustrations of
data, but visual tools that were uniquely equipped to convey
complex ideas and information. In "Mapping the Nation", Susan
Schulten charts how maps of epidemic disease, slavery, census
statistics, the environment, and the past demonstrated the
analytical potential of cartography, and in the process transformed
the very meaning of a map. Today, statistical and thematic maps are
so ubiquitous that we take for granted that data will be arranged
cartographically. Whether for urban planning, public health,
marketing, or political strategy, maps have become everyday tools
of social organization, governance, and economics. The world we
inhabit-saturated with maps and graphic information-grew out of
this sea change in spatial thought and representation in the
nineteenth century, when Americans learned to see themselves and
their nation in new dimensions.
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