History of Science in the United States: The Nineteenth Century

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Exploration and Surveying – Geography and Cartography

 

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Exploration and Surveying

SUBJECT

CITATION

Exploration and surveying

Baruth, Christopher “The United States Lake Survey, Pattern and Process, 1841-1856. DAI 52/02 (1991): 643-A. (Doct. diss., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1990)

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Beckey, Fred. Range of Glaciers: The Exploration and Survey of the Northern Cascade Range. 527pp. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 2003. 

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Bedini, Silvio A. The Jefferson Stone: Demarcation of the First Meridian of the United States. 184pp. Frederick, Md.: Professional Surveyors Publishing Co., 1999.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Carroll, Francis M. A Good & Wise Measure: The Struggle for the Canadian-American Border, 1783-1842. 462pp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. 

Exploration and surveying

Carter, Edward C. II, editor. Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, 231). 344pp. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1999.

Exploration and surveying

Chuinard, Eldon G. Only One Man Died: The Medical Aspects of the Lewis and Clark Expeditions. (Western Frontiersman Series, no. 19). 444pp. Glendale, Calif.: Arthur H. Clark, 1979.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Clarke, Charles G. The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Biographical Roster of the Fifty-one Members and a Composite Diary of Their Activities from All Known Sources. 329pp. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. (Previously published: Glenddale, Calif.: A.H. Clark Co., 1970)

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Cohen, Paul E. Mapping the West: America’s Western Movement 1524-1890. 208pp. New York: Rizzoli, 2002. 

Exploration and surveying

Cooley, John R., compiler and editor. The Great Unknown: The Journals of the First Expedition Down the Colorado River. 207pp. [Flagstaff, Ariz.]: Northland Pub., 1988.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Fresonke, Kris, and Mark Spence, editors. Lewis & Clark: Legacies, Memories, and New Perspectives. 290pp. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Fritz, Harry William. The Lewis and Clark Expedition. 143pp. Westport: Greenwood, 2004. 

Exploration and surveying

Gitelman, Lisa. “The World Recounted: Science and Narrative in Early 19th Century Exploration Accounts. DAI 52/08 (1992): 2931-A. (Doct. diss., Columbia University, 1991)

Exploration and surveying

Goetzmann, William H. New Lands, New Men: America and the Second Great Age of Discovery. 528pp. New York: Viking, 1986.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Hartley, Alan H. Lewis & Clark: Lexicon of Discovery. 234pp. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2004. 

Exploration and surveying

Hibler, Anita M. “The Publication of the Wilkes Reports, 1842-1877. DAI 50/11 (1990): 3633-A. (Doct. diss., George Washington University, 1989)

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Huser, Verne. On the River with Lewis and Clark. 205pp. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2004. 

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Johnsgard, Paul A. Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains: A Natural History. 143pp. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Josephy, Alvin M., Jr., editor. Lewis and Clark through Indian Eyes. 192pp. New York: Knopf, 2006.

Exploration and surveying

Koepp, Donna P., editor. Exploration and Mapping of the American West: Selected Essays. 182pp. Chicago: Speculum Orbis Press, 1986.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Linklater, Andro. Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy. 310pp. New York: Walker, 2002. 

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Parry, Richard. Trial by Ice: The True Story of Murder and Survival on the 1871 Polaris Expedition. 321pp. New York: Ballantine, 2001. 

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Plamondon, Martin, II. Lewis and Clark Trail Maps: A Cartographic Reconstruction. 3 vols. Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2000- 2004. 

Exploration and surveying

Rebert, Paula. “Mapping the United States - Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857. DAI 56/01 (1995): 311-A. (Doct. diss, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994)

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Rebert, Paula. La Gran Linea: Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857. 259pp. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. 

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Robinson, Michael F. The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture. 206pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Robinson, Michael Frederick. “The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture, 1850-1910.” DAI 63/04 (2002): 1530-A. (Doct. diss., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2002) 

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Ronda, James P. and Nancy Tystad Koupal, editors. Finding Lewis & Clark: Old Trails, New Directions. 203pp. Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society, 2004. (Illustrated) 

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Sachs, Aaron Joseph. “The Humboldt Current: Avant-Garde Exploration and Environmental Thought in 19th-Century America.” DAI 65/11 (2005): 4325-A. (Doct. diss., Yale University, 2004)

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Sarasohn, David. Waiting for Lewis and Clark: The Bicentennial and the Changing West. 181pp. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

Exploration and surveying

Savage, Henry, Jr. Discovering America, 1700-1875. (New American Nation Series). 394pp. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.

Exploration and surveying

Van Orman, Richard A. The Explorers: Nineteenth Century Expeditions in Africa and the American West. 243pp. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1984.

Exploration and surveying

Wood, Robert D. The Voyage of the Water Witch: A Scientific Expedition to Paraguay and the LaPlata Region (1853-1856). 106pp Culver City, Calif.: Labyrinthos, 1985.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING

Woodger, Elin and Brandon Toropov. Encyclopedia of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 438pp. New York: Facts on File, 2004. 

Exploration and surveying:

Alaska

Goetzmann, William H. and Kay Sloan. Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899. 244pp. New York: Viking-Overlook Press, 1982.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Alaska

Litwin, Thomas S., editor. The Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced: A Century of Change, 1899-2001. 287pp. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Artifacts, instruments, substances

Bedini, Silvio A. With Compass and Chain: Early American Surveyors and Their Instruments. 800pp. Frederick, Md: Professional Surveyors Publishing Company, 2001. 

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Ambrose, Stephen F. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. 511pp. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Benson, Maxine, editor. From Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains: Major Stephen Longs Expedition, 1819-1820. 410pp. Golden, Col.: Fulcrum, 1988.

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Cleaver, Anne Hoffman and E. Jeffrey Stann, editors. Voyage to the Southern Ocean: The Letters of Lieutenant William Reynolds from the U.S. Exploring Expedition. 325pp. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute, 1988.

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Custis, Peter and Thomas Freeman. Jefferson & Southwestern Exploration: The Freeman & Custis Account of the Red River Expedition of 1806. Edited, with an introduction and epilogue, by Dan L. Flores. 386pp. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Biographical

Custis, Peter and Thomas Freeman. Southern Counterpart to Lewis and Clark: The Freeman and Custis Expedition of 1806. Red River Books Edition. Edited by Dan L. Flores. 386pp. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. (Originally published as: Jefferson and Southwest Exploration, 1984)

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Dawdy, Doris Ostrander. George Montague Wheeler: The Man and the Myth. 122pp. Athens [Ohio]: Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, 1993.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Biographical

Foley, William E. Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark. 326pp. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004. 

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Fremont, John Charles. The Expeditions of John Charles Fremont. Edited by Donald Jackson and Mary Lee Spence. [3 vols. in 4]. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970-[1984].

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Furtwangler, Albert. Acts of Discovery: Visions of America in the Lewis and Clark Journals. 276pp. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Biographical

Guice, John D. W., editor. By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis. 178pp. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006.

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Hawke, David Freeman. Those Tremendous Mountains: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 273pp. New York: W. W. Norton, 1980.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Biographical

Holmberg, James J., editor. Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark. 322pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Jackson, Donald. Thomas Jefferson & the Stony Mountains: Exploring the West from Monticello. 339pp. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1981.

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Kime, Wayne R., editor. The Black Hills Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge. (The American exploration and travel series; v. 74). 274pp. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996.

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Kime, Wayne R., editor. The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge. 486pp. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Biographical

Lankford, Kelly Lara. “Home Only Long Enough: Arctic Explorer Robert E. Peary, American Science, Nationalism, and Philanthropy, 1886-1908.” DAI 64/03 (2003): 1043-A. (Doct. diss., University of Oklahoma, 2003) 

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Lavender, David. The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent. 444pp. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Biographical

Lawson, Russell M. The Land Between the Rivers: Thomas Nuttall’s Ascent of the Arkansas, 1819. 152pp. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Nichols, Roger L. and Patrick L. Halley. Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration. 280pp. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1980.

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Norris, L. David, James C. Milligan and Odie B. Faulk. William H. Emory: Soldier-Scientist. 353pp. Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, 1998.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Biographical

Ronda, James P. Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark. 138pp. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. 

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Biographical

Ronda, James P. Lewis and Clark among the Indians. 310pp. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.  (Originally published 1984) 

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Schubert, Frank N., editor. Explorer on the Northern Plains: Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warrens Preliminary Report of Explorations in Nebraska and Dakota, in the Years 1855-`56-`57. (Engineering Historical Studies, no. 2). 125pp. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1981.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Biographical

Scott, Kim Allen. Yellowstone Denied: The Life of Gustavus Cheyney Doane. 305pp. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Biographical

Seefeldt, Douglas, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf, editors. Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America. 222pp. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Biographical

Slaughter, Thomas P. Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness. 231pp. New York: Knopf, 2003.

Exploration and surveying:

Biographical

Willingham, William F. and Leonoor Swets Ingraham, editors. Enlightenment Science in the Pacific Northwest: The Lewis and Clark Expedition. 72pp. Portland, Oregon: Dynagraphics, for Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, 1984.

Exploration and surveying:

Institutional

Kendall, Laurel, editor. Drawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902. Contributions by Stanley Freed, Thomas Rose Miller, and Barbara Mathi. 112pp. New York: American Museum of Natural History in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle, c1997.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Institutional

Philbrick, Nathaniel. Sea of Glory: America’s Voyage of Discovery: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. 452pp. New York: Viking, 2003. 

Exploration and surveying:

Institutional

Schubert, Frank N. Nation Builders: Sesquicentennial History of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, 1838-1863. 92pp. Washington, D. C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1988.

Exploration and surveying:

Institutional

Viola, Herman J. and Carolyn J. Margolis, editors. Magnificent Voyagers: The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. 303pp. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Sources

Berry, Trey, Pam Beasley, and Jeanne Clements, editors. The Forgotten Expedition, 1804–1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter. 248pp. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Sources

Holmberg, James J., editor. Exploring with Lewis and Clark: The 1804 Journal of Charles Floyd. 98pp. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004.

Exploration and surveying:

Sources

Townsend, John Kirk. Narrative of a Journey across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River, and a Visit to the Sandwich Islands, Chili, & c., with a Scientific Appendix. Originally published: Philadelphia: H. Perkins, 1839. Edited and with introduction by George A. Jobanek. (Northwest reprints). 290pp. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1999.

Exploration and surveying:

Sources (archival)

Moulton, Gary E., editor. The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. 13 Vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983-2001.

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Sources (archival)

Moulton, Gary E., editor. The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery: The Abridgment of the Definitive Nebraska Edition. 413pp. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. 

EXPLORATION AND SURVEYING:

Sources (archival)

Reynolds, William. Private Journal of William Reynolds: United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Edited by Nathaniel Philbrick and Thomas Philbrick. (Penguin Classics). 334pp. London: Penguin Books, 2004.

Exploration and surveying:

Utah

Madsen, Brigham D., editor. Exploring the Great Salt Lake: The Stansbury Expedition of 1849-50. 889pp. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1989.

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Fairs and Expositions

SUBJECT

CITATION

Fairs and expositions

Harvey, Bruce G. “World’s Fairs in a Southern Accent: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, 1895-1902. DAI 59/03 (1998): 931-A. (Doct. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1998)

Fairs and expositions

Rydell, Robert W. “All the World’s Fair: America’s International Expositions, 1876-1916. DAI 41/08 (1981): 3696-A. (Doct. diss., University of California-Los Angeles, 1980)

Fairs and expositions

Rydell, Robert W. All the Worlds a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916. 316pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Fairs and expositions

Rydell, Robert W. World of Fairs: The Century-of-Progress Expositions. 269pp. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

Fairs and expositions

Rydell, Robert W. and Nancy E. Gwinn, editors. Fair Representations: Worlds Fairs and the Modern World. Consists primarily of selected papers presented at a symposium organized by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. (European Contributions to American Studies, 27). 253pp. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1994.

Fairs and expositions

Rydell, Robert W., John E. Findling and Kimberly D. Pelle. Fair America: Worlds Fairs in the United States. 166pp. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS:

California

Bokovoy, Matthew. The San Diego World’s Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880-1940. 353pp. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

Fairs and expositions:

Canada

Heaman, E. A. The Inglorious Arts of Peace: Exhibitions in Canadian Society during the 19th Century. 412pp. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS:

Illinois

Downey, Dennis B. A Season of Renewal: The Columbian Exposition and Victorian America. 216pp. Westport: Praeger, 2002. 

Fairs and expositions:

Illinois

Findling, John E. Chicagos Great Worlds Fairs. (Studies in Design and Material Culture). 173pp. Manchester / New York: Manchester University Press; New York: Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. and Canada by St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

Fairs and expositions:

Institutional

Badger, Reid. The Great American Fair: The Worlds Columbian Exposition and American Culture. 177pp. Chicago, Ill.: Nelson, 1979.

Fairs and expositions:

Institutional

Bolotin, Norman and Christine Laing. The Worlds Columbian Exposition: The Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893. 166pp. Washington, DC: Preservation Press, 1992.

Fairs and expositions:

Institutional

Brown, Julie K. Contesting Images: Photography and the Worlds Columbian Exposition. 185pp. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994.

FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS:

Institutional

Giberti, Bruno. Designing the Centennial: A History of the 1876 International Exhibition in Philadelphia. 304pp. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002. 

FAIRS AND EXPOSITIONS:

New York

Wheaton, Chad Randall. “‘And proudly called it growing’: The New York State Fair and the Consequences of Progress, 1890–1958.” DAI 664/02 2003): 630-A. (Doct. diss., Syracuse University, 2003) 

Fairs and expositions:

Pictorial works

Appelbaum, Stanley. The Chicago Worlds Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record. 116pp. New York: Dover, 1980.

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Foreign Science and U.S.

SUBJECT

CITATION

Foreign science and U.S.

Buck, Peter. American Science and Modern China, 1876-1936. 283pp. Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

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Forestry

SUBJECT

CITATION

FORESTRY

Brock, Emily Katherine. “Replanting the Douglas Fir Forest: Forest Science and Forest Practice in the Pacific Northwest, 1890-1945.” DAI 65/08 (2005): 3126-A. (Doct. diss., Princeton University, 2004)

Forestry

Foster, David R. and John F. O’Keefe. New England Forests through Time: Insights from the Harvard Forest Dioramas. 67pp. Petersham, Mass.: Harvard Forest, Harvard University; Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2000.

FORESTRY

Lewis, James Graham. “Trained by Americans in American Ways: The Establishment of Forestry Education  in the United States, 1885-1911.” DAI 62/02 (2001): 742-A. (Doct. diss., Florida State University, 2001) 

Forestry

Rajala, Richard. “Clearcutting the Pacific Coast: Production, Science, and Regulation in the Douglas Fir Forests of Canada and the United States, 1880-1965. DAI 56/07 (1996): 2823-A. (Doct. diss, York University (Canada), 1994)

Forestry

Rajala, Richard. Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest: Production, Science, and Regulation. 286pp. Vancouver: UBC Press, c1998.

Forestry

Robbins, William G. Lumberjacks and Legislators: Political Economy of the U.S. Lumber Industry, 1890-1941. 268pp. College Station, Tex.: Texas A & M University Press, 1982.

Forestry:

Biographical

Eyle, Alexandra. Charles Lathrop Pack: Timberman, Forest Conservationist, and Pioneer in Forest Education. 320pp. Syracuse, N.Y.: ESP College Foundation, Inc., College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, c1992, c1994.

Forestry:

Biographical

Rodgers, Andrew Denny, III. Bernhard Eduard Fernow: A Story of North American Forestry. 623pp. Durham, N.C.: Forest History Society, 1991.

FORESTRY:

Mississippi

Fickle, James E. Mississippi Forests and Forestry. 347pp. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. 

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Genetics and Genetic Engineering

SUBJECT

CITATION

Genetics and genetic engineering

Paul, Diane B. Controlling Human Heredity, 1865 to the Present. (The Control of Nature). 158pp. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1995. (Comparative international study, including U.S.)

Genetics and genetic engineering

Rushton, Alan R. Genetics and Medicine in the United States, 1800 to 1922. 209pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

GENETICS AND GENETIC ENGINEERING

Thurtle, Phillip Stevens. “Breeding True: Information Processing and the Growth of Genetic Reasoning in America, 1880–1910.” DAI 63/10 (2003): 3698-A. (Doct. diss., Stanford University, 2002) 

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Geography and Cartography

SUBJECT

CITATION

GEOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY

Brückner, Martin. The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity. 276pp. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

GEOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY

Checkovich, Alex, “Mapping the American Way: Geographical Knowledge and the Development of the United States, 1890–1950.” DAI 65/06 (2004): 2338-A. (Doct. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2004)

Geography and cartography

Ferrill, Martha J. W. “The Myth of Tree Planting on the Great Plains. DAI 50/03 (1989): 769-A. (Doct. diss., University of Nebraska, 1988)

Geography and cartography

Harvey, Bruce A. “American Geographics: The Popular Reproduction of the Non-European World, 1830-1860. DAI 52/09 (1992): 3282-A. (Doct. diss., Stanford University, 1991)

GEOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY

Kimaid, Michael Anthony. “‘West of the line extended’: Cartography and Conflict in Post-Revolutionary North America.” DAI 64/07 (2004): 2625-A(Doct. diss. Bowling Green State University, 2003) 

Geography and cartography

Lewis, G. Malcolm, editor. Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use. (The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography). 318pp. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Geography and cartography

Luebke, Frederick C., Frances W. Kaye and Gary E. Moulton, editors. Mapping the North American Plains: Essays in the History of Cartography. 239pp. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.

GEOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY

Michie, Helena and Ronald G. Thomas, editors. Nineteenth-Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century. 293pp. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002. 

Geography and cartography

Reinhartz, Dennis and Charles C. Colley, editors. The Mapping of the American Southwest. 83pp. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987.

Geography and cartography

Ristow, Walter W. American Maps and Mapmakers: Commercial Cartography in the Nineteenth Century. 488pp. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985.

Geography and cartography

Schulten, Susan. “The Transformation of World Geography in American Life, 1880-1950. DAI 57/01 (1996): 420-A. (Doct. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1995)

Geography and cartography

Schulten, Susan. The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950. 319pp. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Geography and cartography

Schwartz, Seymour I. and Ralph E. Ehrenberg. Mapping of America. 363pp. New York: Abrams, 1980.

Geography and cartography

Thompson, Morris M. Maps for America: Cartographic Products of the U.S. Geological Survey and Others. 2nd ed. 265pp. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Geological Survey; Government Printing Office, 1982.

Geography and cartography

Weber, Michael F. “Tierra Incognita: The Spanish Cartography of the American Southwest, 1540-1803. DAI 47/08 (1987): 3171-A. (Doct. diss., University of New Mexico, 1986)

Geography and cartography

Zerubavel, Eviatar. Terra Cognita: The Mental Discovery of America. 164pp., [40]pp. of plates. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Geography and cartography:

Archival guides

Deak, Gloria Gilda. Picturing America, 1497-1899: Prints, Maps, and Drawings Bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory That Is Now the United States. 2 vols. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Geography and cartography:

Biographical

Bray, Martha C. Joseph Nicollet and His Map. (Memoir 140). 300pp. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1980.

Geography and cartography:

Biographical

Kennedy, J. Gerald. The Astonished Traveler: William Darby, Frontier Geographer and Man of Letters. 238pp. Baton Rouge, La.: LSU Press, 1981. (Darby, 1775-1854)

Geography and cartography:

Hawaii

Fitzpatrick, Gary L. The Early Mapping of Hawaii. 160pp. London: Kegan Paul International, 1987.

Geography and cartography:

Institutional

Bryan, C. D. B. The National Geographic Society: One Hundred Years of Adventure and Discovery. 484pp. New York: Abrams, 1987.

GEOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY:

Institutional

McKenzie, Matthew Gaston. “Vocational Science and the Politics of Independence: The Boston Marine Society, 1754-1812.” DAI 64/03 (2003): 1044-A. (Doct. diss., University of New Hampshire, 2003) 

GEOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY:

Institutional

Poole, Robert M. Explorers House: National Geographic and the World It Made. 357pp. London: Penguin Books, 2004.

GEOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY:

Louisiana

Lemmon, Alfred Emmette, John T. Magill, Jason R. Wiese, and John R. Hebert, editors. Charting Louisiana: Five Hundred Years of Maps. 383pp. New Orleans: The Historic New Orleans Collection, 2004. 

GEOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY:

Nevada

Francaviglia, Richard V. Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History. 231pp. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005.

GEOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY:

New York

Jackson, John N., with John Burtniak and Gregory P. Stein. Mighty Niagara: One River, Two Frontiers. 486pp. Amherst, N.Y. / Oxford: Prometheus Books, 2003. 

GEOGRAPHY AND CARTOGRAPHY:

Pictorial works

Rumsey, David and Edith M. Punt. Cartographica Extraordinaire: The Historical Map Transformed. 160pp. Redlands, Calif.: ESRI Press, 2004. 

Geography and cartography:

Sources

Powell, John Wesley. Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the United States. Introduction by T. H. Watkins. 195pp. Port Washington, New York: Harvard Common Press; Independent Publishers Group, 1983. (Facsimile of 1879 edition)

 

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