The Ambulatory Map

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This essay examines the cultural significance of “ambulatory maps” in the Atlantic world between 1700 and 1800. Comparing stationary and portable maps, the essay in particular explores the emergent genre of the commercial pocket map. As “things-in-motion,” pocket maps occupied a unique place in American material life. Used for mapping people’s transits while at the same time being objects in transit, pocket maps constituted a unique visual and literary experience that affected early American engagements with space and spatial ideology.

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