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Cartographies of travel and navigation

Title
Cartographies of travel and navigation [electronic resource] / edited by James R. Akerman.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors
Akerman, James R.
Description
1 online resource (ix, 372 p.) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
Series Statement
The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography
Uniform Title
Cartographies of travel and navigation (Online)
Subject
  • Maps
  • Navigation
  • Map reading
  • Navigation > United States
  • Map reading > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2005031379
OCLC
ssj0000413599
Title
Cartographies of travel and navigation [electronic resource] / edited by James R. Akerman.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Series
The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Akerman, James R.
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