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

Other author Akerman, James R.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Descriptionix, 372 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesThe Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography. ^A303733
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-346) and index.
LCCN 2005031379
ISBN0226010740 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780226010748

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Joyner General Stacks GA108 .C35 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold