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A Biography of a Map in Motion
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Pages: 313
Authors: Christian J. Koot
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Reveals the little known history of one of history’s most famous maps – and its maker Tucked away in a near-forgotten collection, Virginia and Maryland as i
The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750-1860
Language: en
Pages: 350
Authors: Martin Brückner
Categories: Cartographers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press

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In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of
Empire at the Periphery
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Christian J. Koot
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Examines the networks that connected British settlers in New York & the Caribbean & Dutch traders in the Netherlands & in the Dutch colonies in North America &
A Map of the World
Language: en
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Authors: Jane Hamilton
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the widely acclaimed The Book of Ruth comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disa
Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine
Language: en
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Authors: Roger Cooter
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-18 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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DIV A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter’s contributions to the history of medici