Virginia: Mapping the Old Dominion State through History
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Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps of the Commonwealth of Virginia from the collections of the Library of Congress, 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 Virginia for residents, former residents, and visitors.
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Product Details
- Title : Virginia: Mapping the Old Dominion State through History: Rare and Unusual Maps from the Library of Congress
- Authors:
- Virga, Vincent,
- Hines, Emilee
- Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
- Publication Date: 2009
- ISBN: 9780762758456
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. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Emilee Hines is a native Virginian who taught history, English, and creative writing for thirty years before retiring. A historian by training, with a master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she is author of It Happened in Virginia (Globe Pequot), More than Petticoats: Remarkable Virginia Women (TwoDot), and seven volumes of Old Virginia Houses.“A map is an image. It makes the world more real for us and
uses signs to create an essential sense of place in our
imagination. Like the movies, maps helped create our national
identity, and this encyclopedic series of books aims to make
manifest the changing social order that invented the United States,
which is why it embraces all fifty states.”
—from the Foreword by Vincent Virga