Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 250 pages)
,
color illustrations, color maps.
ISBN:
9781000228823
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1000228827
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9780429319211
,
0429319215
,
9781000228793
,
1000228797
,
9781000228809
,
1000228800
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the history of the Americas
Content:
Introduction: The expeditionary impulse / Ernesto Capello and Julia B. Rosenbaum -- Section 1. Seeing and Not Seeing. Alexander von Humboldt: The aesthetic science of landscape pictures / Alicia Lubowski-Jahn -- Triangulating the view: Art and the great surveys of the American West in the 1870s / Joni L. Kinsey -- Cartographic representation in the Age of Vernacular Landscape: Pictorial metaphor in Stephen Long's map of the country drained by the Mississippi (1822) / Kenneth Haltman -- Seeing solitary deserts full of people: The Chorographic Commission in Colombia's Eastern Plains, 1856 / Nancy P. Appelbaum -- Section 2. Lines and Tracings. Intervisible border: Photographs and monuments along the US-Mexico boundary / Katherine G. Morrissey -- "Visual Expeditions" supporting geopolitical vindications: Maps, photographs and other visual devices in the diplomatic dispute over the Andes as a natural border (1900) / Carla Lois -- Female eyes on South America: Maria Graham in Brazil / Katherine Manthorne -- Science, wonder, and tourism in the early mapping of Yellowstone National Park / James R. Akerman -- Section 3. Art and the Expeditionary Impulse. Delineating land: Art, mapping, and the work of Frederic Edwin Church / Julia B. Rosenbaum -- Albert Operti: An Arctic historical painter and the popular sublime / Ernesto Capello.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367333263
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367350260
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780367333263
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780429319211
