| Title | From sea charts to satellite images : interpreting North American history through maps / edited by David Buisseret.
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| Published | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.
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| Description | xvi, 324 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps (some col.) ; 25 cm.
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| ISBN | 0-226-07991-0 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0-226-07992-9 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: The European antecedents of new world maps / David Buisseret -- Maps of the age of European exploration / David B. Quinn -- Eighteenth-century large-scale maps / Louis DeVorsey -- Maps of the township and range system / Ronald E. Grim -- Nineteenth-century landscape views / David Buisseret -- Bird's-eye views of towns and cities ; City maps and plans / Gerald Danzer -- North American county maps and atlases / Michael P. Conzen -- Two examples of thematic maps : civil war and fire insurance maps / Robert Karrow and Ronald E. Grim -- Topographic surveys of the United States / Robert Karrow -- Twentieth-century highway maps / Thomas Schlereth -- Aerial imagery / David Buisseret and Christopher Baruth.
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| Subjects | Cartography -- History.
North America -- History -- Maps.
United States -- History -- Maps.
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| Other Authors | Buisseret, David.
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| LC Card Number | 89-20521 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: E 179 F931
mq18116: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 11376] |
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