| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction: I Know by the Color -- ONE Growing Up and Going Far: Geography Primers, "Home Geography," and the World -- TWO Quiet as Mice: Dissected Maps, Domestic Fun, and the World in Pieces -- THREE A for Amoy, Z for Zanesville: Child-Made Geographical Puzzles, Finger-Tip Travelers, and Cartographic Intimacies of the World -- FOUR We Sing a Geography Song: The Writing Child, the Portable Home Front, and World Geography -- Conclusion: Huckleberry Finn in the World |
| Summary |
"By delving into the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize any political project as rampant as empire, this thought-provoking study focuses on children and their ambivalent, intimate relationships with maps and practices of mapping at the dawn of the "American Century." Considering children as students, map and puzzle makers, letter writers, and playmates, Mahshid Mayar interrogates the ways turn-of-the-century American children encountered, made sense of, and produced spatial narratives and cognitive maps of the United States and the world. Mayar further probes how children's diverse patterns of consuming, relating to, and appropriating the "truths" that maps represent turned cartography into a site of personal and political contention"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 1, 2022) |
| Subject |
Geopolitics -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Maps -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Geography -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
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Maps -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
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Geopolitics
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Geography -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1469667304 |
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9781469667300 |
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