Illinois: Mapping the Prairie State through History

Rare And Unusual Maps From The Library Of Congress

Vincent Virga, Scotti Cohn (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

128 Seiten

2010
Globe Pequot Press (Verlag)
978-0-7627-6011-4 (ISBN)

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These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays. Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of the Prairie State from the collections of the Library of Congress, a foreword by Vincent Virga about the Library of Congress collection and the Illinois maps, informative captions about the origins and contents of those maps, and essays on state history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of Illinois for residents, former residents, and visitors.

Vincent Virga has been called, "America's foremost picture editor." He is the coauthor of Eyes of the Nation and the author of Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations, produced in cooperation with the Library of Congress. Scotti McAuliff Cohn is a writer and freelance editor specializing in history and young-adult fiction. Her other books include It Happened in North Carolina and More than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.11.2010
Reihe/Serie	Mapping the States through History
Verlagsort	Old Saybrook
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	50 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-7627-6011-7 / 0762760117
ISBN-13	978-0-7627-6011-4 / 9780762760114
Zustand	Neuware