The Geographical Imagination in America 1880-1950

About this book

In this rich and fascinating history Susan Schulten tells a story of Americans beginning to see the world around them tracing U.S. attitudes toward world geography from the end of nineteenth-century exploration to the explosion of geographic interest before the dawn of the Cold War. Focusing her examination on four influential institutionsmaps and atlases the National Geographic Society the American university and public schoolsSchulten provides an engaging study of geography cartography and their place in popular culture politics and education.