Title & Author:

From sea charts to satellite images : interpreting North American history through maps / edited by David Buisseret.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Description:

xvi, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0226079910 (alk. paper)
9780226079912 (alk. paper)
0226079929 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226079929 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Cartography History.
Cartographie Histoire.
74.25 geography of North America.
Cartography.
Historical geography.
Geschichte
Karte
Kartografie
Cartografie.
Kartographie.
United States Historical geography Maps.
North America Historical geography Maps.
États-Unis Géographie historique Cartes.
Amérique du Nord Géographie historique Cartes.
North America.
United States.
Nordamerika

Form/genre:

History.
Maps.
History (form)
Cartes géographiques.

Added entries:

Buisseret, David, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 52838
Call No.: ID:90-B1650
Status: Available