Format:
48 S.
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Ill., Kt.
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28 cm
Content:
Catalog of an exhibition of maps held August 25, 2008 - January 3, 2009 in Special Collections, the University of Texas at Arlington Library
Note:
Includes select bibliography (p. 47-48)
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International tensions and Enlightenment knowledge : maps of the West, circa 1800 -- Maps from the Louisiana Purchase explorations, 1804-1814 -- Contending neighbors in a vast land : maps of 1815-1844 -- Maps of Manifest Destiny, 1846-1848 -- The California gold rush in maps -- U.S. government-sponsored surveys of the 1850s -- The American Civil War : maps of 1861-1865 -- Further expansion in the West : maps of the 1860s and 1870s -- "The closing of the frontier" : maps of the 1880s and 1890s.
Language:
English
