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

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

[New York] : Apollo Publishers, 2021

xv, 272 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.), ports. ; 27 cm.

912.73 A794 2021

(OCoLC)1257556099

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-272).|"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 ... 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 ..."--Book jacket.|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.|L2021M88

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