The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950

By: Susan Schulten

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Paperback | 14 January 2003 | Edition Number 1

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In this rich and fascinating history, Susan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them, tracing U.S. attitudes toward world geography from the end of nineteenth-century exploration to the explosion of geographic interest before the dawn of the Cold War. Focusing her examination on four influential institutions--maps and atlases, the National Geographic Society, the American university, and public schools--Schulten provides an engaging study of geography, cartography, and their place in popular culture, politics, and education.

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"Schulten steps up to the challenge of producing a full-length work about the political economy of mapmaking.... An ambitious history of the rise of popular cartography in the United States." - Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker "A well-documented account of how politics, history and culture influenced the study and presentation of geography.... Theory is wisely balanced by a hodgepodge of odd and interesting facts about maps, politics and American cultural trends." - Publishers Weekly "An important new work.... Schulten's original synthesis ranges widely and insightfully from the effects of war on map design to map projection as a reflection of how Americans saw themselves as an emergent world power." - Mark Monmonier, author of How to Lie with Maps and Air Apparent

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Making Geography Modern
Maps for the Masses, 1880-1900
Science, Culture, and Expansionism in the Making of the National Geographic, 1888-1900
Creating the Science of Geography, 1880-1919
School Geography, the "Mother of All Sciences," 1880-1914
Geography for the American Century
School Geography in the Age of Internationalism, 1914-1950
Negotiating Success at the National Geographic, 1900-1929
The Map and the Territory, 1900-1939
War and the Re-creation of the World, 1939-1950
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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