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The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950, Paperback / softback Book

The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950 Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Description

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.