The Shape of Texas: Maps as Metaphors Hardcover - 1996
by Richard V. Francaviglia
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Over the years America's most recognizable state outline has become one of its most potent symbols, a metaphor for Texas popular culture. In the last decade, the private, commercial, and official use of the Texas map as cultural symbol has boomed. Richard V. Francaviglia identifies this current trend as "Tex-map mania", and contends that the Texas map as icon integrates geography with history - and gives shape to a mythic landscape and to abstracted notions of what Texas is and who Texans are. Written in a lively style that engages both the scholar and the general reader in a discussion of the power of symbol and the meaning and significance of a shared aesthetic, The Shape of Texas is at the crossroads of cartography and popular culture. Francaviglia uses more than one hundred illustrations in offering a provocative visual and written account of this important, yet much neglected, aspect of Texas history and the dynamics of a still emerging Texas identity.
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- Title The Shape of Texas: Maps as Metaphors
- Author Richard V. Francaviglia
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Texas A&M University Press, College Station
- Date January 1996
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9780890966648 / 0890966648
- Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.44 x 6.29 x 0.62 in (23.98 x 15.98 x 1.57 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Texas
- Library of Congress subjects Popular culture - Texas, Texas - Maps, Mental
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-18635
- Dewey Decimal Code 912.764
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