David Bernstein (5)

I'd be the first to admit that this book is not for everyone, but if you have interests in the cartographic imagination as culture, this is certainly a must read, as the author negotiates the question of competing visions of the lay of the land in the process of building "imagined nations;" hopefully on the path to creating an American history that captures the experience of all participants. This is as compared to the narrative exemplified by John C. "Pathfinder" Fremont, who was always much better at self-promotion than actual science, and whose example and work supposedly offered a validation to "manifest destiny." This monograph also works, in part, as an examination of how the Pawnee nation defended their position from both local rivals and the U.S. government.… (plus d'informations)