Revolution: Mapping the Road to American Independence, 1755-1783 - Couverture rigide

Brown, Richard H.; Cohen, Paul E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393060322 ISBN 13 : 9780393060324

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2015

Synopsis

Taking into account the key events of the French and Indian War, this book shows the American Revolution s progress in 60 glorious contemporary maps and accompanying essays relating them to the events of the time. The authors tell the stories of the maps and cartographers whose talents have made these some of the most valuable artifacts in our nation s history. When warfare between Britain and her colonists erupted in 1775, maps provided the pictorial news about military matters. A number of the best examples of those maps, including some from the personal collection of King George III, the Duke of Northumberland, and the Marquis de Lafayette, are beautifully reproduced here. Others from institutional and private collections are being published for the first time."

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Richard H. Brown is a collector of maps and views of the French and Indian War and American Revolution. He is vice chairman of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library and serves as a councilor of the American Antiquarian Society. He is also a member of the Madison Council of the Library of Congress and the Library Committee of the New-York Historical Society.

Paul E. Cohen is the coauthor of Manhattan in Maps (New York: Rizzoli, 1997; Mineola, NY: Dover, 2014), which received the New York City Book Award in 1997. He is also the author of Mapping the West (New York: Rizzoli, 2002), and the co-editor of American Cities (New York: Assouline, 2005). He is a partner in Cohen & Taliaferro LLC, New York City, dealers in rare books and antique maps.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0393060322
• ISBN 13: 9780393060324
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible