Bibliograph

Mapping America, the incredible story and stunning hand-colored maps and engravings that created the United States, Neal Asbury and Jean-Pierre Isbouts

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Mapping America, the incredible story and stunning hand-colored maps and engravings that created the United States, Neal Asbury and Jean-Pierre Isbouts

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

mapsillustrationsportraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mapping America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1257556099

Responsibility statement

Neal Asbury and Jean-Pierre Isbouts

Sub title

the incredible story and stunning hand-colored maps and engravings that created the United States

Summary

"The story of the exploration and birth of America is told afresh through the unique prism of hand-colored maps and engravings of the period. Before photography and television, it was printed and hand-colored maps that brought home the thrill of undiscovered lands and the possibilities of exploration, while guiding armies on all sides through the Indian Wars and the clashes of the American Revolution. Only by looking through the prism of these maps, can we truly understand how and why America developed the way it did. Mapping America illuminates with scene-setting text and more than 150 color images--from the exotic and fanciful maps of Renaissance explorers to the magnificent maps of the Golden Age and the thrilling battle-maps and charts of the American Revolutionary War, in addition to paintings from the masters of eighteenth century art, scores of photographs, and detailed diagrams. In total, this informative and lushly illustrated volume developed by rare maps collector Neal Asbury, host of "Neal Asbury's Made in America," and National Geographic historian Jean-Pierre Isbouts offers a new and immersive look at the ambition, the struggle, and the glory that attended and defined the exploration and making of America."--Jacket flap

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- The dawn of the Renaissance -- The discovery of the Americas -- The first European settlements -- The golden age of cartography -- The eighteenth-century colonization of America -- Daily life in the English colonies -- Mapping the prelude to war -- The outbreak of rebellion -- The battle for independence -- The road to victory -- Epilogue

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