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Mapping And Imagination In The Great Basin: A Cartographic History
Richard V. Francaviglia
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Paperback. A study of how the Great Basin's gradual emergence from its "large cartographic silence" both paralleled the development of the sciences of surveying, geology, hydrology, and cartography, and reflected the changing geopolitical aspirations of the European colonial powers and the US. Num Pages: 256 pages, 11 photographs, 79 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; RGV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 544.
The Great Basin was the last region of continental North America to be explored and mapped, and it remained largely a mystery to European-Americans until well into the nineteenth century. In Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin, geographer-historian Richard Francaviglia shows how the Great Basin's gradual emergence from its ""large cartographic silence"" both paralleled the development of the sciences of surveying, geology, hydrology, and cartography, and reflected the changing geopolitical aspirations of the European colonial powers and the United States. Francaviglia's compelling, wide-ranging discussion combines an explanation of the physical realities of the Great Basin with a cogent examination ... Read more
The Great Basin was the last region of continental North America to be explored and mapped, and it remained largely a mystery to European-Americans until well into the nineteenth century. In Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin, geographer-historian Richard Francaviglia shows how the Great Basin's gradual emergence from its ""large cartographic silence"" both paralleled the development of the sciences of surveying, geology, hydrology, and cartography, and reflected the changing geopolitical aspirations of the European colonial powers and the United States. Francaviglia's compelling, wide-ranging discussion combines an explanation of the physical realities of the Great Basin with a cogent examination ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874176179
SKU
V9780874176179
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About Richard V. Francaviglia
Richard V. Francaviglia is Professor of History and Geography and Director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography at the University of Texas in Arlington. He is the author of Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin and of several other studies of the history and geography of the American West.
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