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Abstracts and reviews of research and exploration authorized under grants from the National Geographic Society.
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A definitive collection of every issue of National Geographic magazine in 120 years.
Shows how archaeologists learn about various cultures in America from artifacts, archives, fossils, and any other clues they can find.
You will join in a traverse of North America's mighty mountains, feel their lashing winds, bitter cold and blowing snow. In contrast, you may take lessons for water skiing in other places.
National Geographic magazine is probably the most visible and popular expression of geography in the USA. Presenting America's World presents a critical analysis of the world portrayed by National Geographic, from its formative years in the nineteenth century, through to 1945. It situates the National Geographic Society's development within the context of a new American overseas expansionism, interrogates the magazine as America's ubiquitous source of wholesome exotica and erotica, examines the ways in which it framed the world for its millions of readers, and questions its participation in the cultural work of US global hegemony. The book argues that National Geographic successfully employe...