The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950

By Susan Schulten

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226740560
• ISBN13: 9780226740560
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"