Research Catalog

Title

Cartographies of travel and navigation / edited by James R. Akerman.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Akerman, James R.

Description

ix, 372 p., [7] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 24 cm

Series Statement

The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography

Uniform Title

Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography.

Subject

• Maps
• Navigation
• Map reading
• Navigation > United States
• Map reading > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-346) and index

Contents

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

Call Number

Map Div. 06-6624

ISBN

0226010740 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005031379
• 9780226010748

OCLC

62281612

Title

Cartographies of travel and navigation / edited by James R. Akerman.

Imprint

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Series

The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography

Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-346) and index

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Added Author

Akerman, James R.

Other Standard Identifier

9780226010748

Research Call Number

Map Div. 06-6624