Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West by Conzen, Michael P.

Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West

Published to coincide with an exhibition at Chicago's Newberry Library, Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American...
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Author: Michael P. Conzen
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Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West by Conzen, Michael P.

Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West

$73.85

Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West

$73.85
Author: Michael P. Conzen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Published to coincide with an exhibition at Chicago's Newberry Library, Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West charts the historic role maps have played in imagining, understanding, promoting, and exploiting the Western frontier of North America. Featuring more than sixty full-color maps and views from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, this fascinating book documents how maps encouraged Euro-Americans to see the West as a land of promise. Maps helped visualize a nation destined to expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
Curators Michael P. Conzen and Diane Dillon present an interpretively rich, carefully researched selection of items drawing on the Newberry's superb collections of historic maps and Western Americana. They have organized the book into four sections: maps for empire, maps for building a new nation, maps for enlightenment, and maps for business. Chicago emerges first as a dot on one of these maps, but it subsequently becomes a bustling metropolis and a major center of cartographic production.

Author: Michael P. Conzen
Publisher: Newberry Library
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 11.94h x 8.94w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780911028812


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 71

About the Author
Michael P. Conzen is professor in and chair of the Committee on Geographical Studies at the University of Chicago. Diane Dillon is assistant director of research and education at the Newberry Library.


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