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Edited by James R. Akerman

Cartographies of Travel and Navigation

344 pages, 11 color plates, 81 halftones, 4 line drawings  6 x 9  © 2006
Series: The Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography

Cloth $55.00

ISBN: 9780226010748   Published October 2006

Preface and Acknowledgements

 

 

Chapter 1.  Introduction

James R. Akerman

 

Chapter 2.  Milieus of Mobility: Itineraries, Route Maps, and Road Maps

Catherine Delano-Smith

 

Chapter 3.  Surveying the Seas: Establishing the Sea Routes to the East Indies

Andrew S. Cook

 

Chapter 4.  Mapping a Transcontinental Nation: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Rail Travel Cartography

Jerry Musich

 

Chapter 5.  Twentieth-Century American Road Maps and the Making of a National Motorized Space

James R. Akerman

 

Chapter 6.  “Up in the Air in More Ways Than One”: The Emergence of Aeronautical Charts in the United States

Ralph E. Ehrenberg

 

Chapter 7.  Maps on Wheels: The Evolution of Intelligent Automobile Navigation          

Robert L. French

 

Notes

List of Contributors

Index

Subjects



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