Cartographies of travel and navigation [electronic resource] / edited by James R. Akerman.
Series: Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartographyPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.Description: ix, 372 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)ISBN:- 0226010740 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226010748
- 629.04/5 22
- GA108 .C35 2006eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / James R. Akerman -- Milieus of mobility : itineraries, route maps and road maps / Catherine Delano-Smith -- Surveying the seas : establishing the sea routes to the East Indies / Andrew S. Cook -- Mapping a transcontinental nation : nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American rail travel cartography / Jerry Musich -- Twentieth-century American road maps and the making of a national motorized space / James R. Akerman -- "Up in the air in more ways than one" : the emergence of aeronautical charts in the United States / Ralph E. Ehrenberg -- Maps on wheels : the evolution of automobile navigation / Robert L. French.
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