The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950

by Schulten, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780226740560
• ISBN10: 0226740560
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

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 institutions--maps and atlases, the National Geographic Society, the American university, and public schools--Schulten provides an engaging study of geography, cartography, and their place in popular culture, politics, and education.

Author Biography

Susan Schulten is an assistant professor of history at the University of Denver.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
PART ONE MAKING GEOGRAPHY MODERN	15	(104)
Maps for the Masses, 1880-1900	17	(28)
Science, Culture, and Expansionism in the Making of the National Geographic, 1888-1900	45	(24)
Creating the Science of Geography, 1880-1919	69	(23)
School Geography, the ``Mother of All Sciences,'' 1880-1914	92	(27)
PART TWO GEOGRAPHY FOR THE AMERICAN CENTURY	119	(120)
School Geography in the Age of Internationalism, 1914-1950	121	(27)
Negotiating Success at the National Geographic, 1900-1929	148	(28)
The Map and the Territory, 1900-1939	176	(28)
War and the Re-creation of the World, 1939-1950	204	(35)
Epilogue	239	(4)
Notes	243	(38)
Bibliography	281	(28)
Index	309