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Cartographies of travel and navigation [electronic resource] / edited by James R. Akerman.

Contributor(s): Akerman, James R.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography: Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006Description: 1 online resource (ix, 372 p., [7] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).ISBN: 9780226010786 (electronic bk.); 0226010783 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Maps | Navigation | Map reading | Navigation -- United States | Map reading -- United States | Engineering | Cartes géographiques | Navigation | Lecture de cartes | Navigation -- États-Unis | Lecture de cartes -- États-Unis | TRANSPORTATION -- Navigation | Kaarten (geografie) | Kaartlezen | Reizen | Verenigde Staten | Kartographie | Reisekarte | NavigationGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cartographies of travel and navigation.DDC classification: 629.04/5 LOC classification: GA108 | .C35 2006ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-346) 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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