177 The Social Life of Maps in America

Ben Franklin's World

Liz Covart

History, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Did you know that maps have social lives? Maps facilitate a lot of different social and political relationships between people and nations. And they did a lot of this work for Americans throughout the early American past. Martin Brückner, a Professor of English at the University of Delaware, joins us to discuss early American maps and early American mapmaking with details from his book The Social Life of Maps in America.  Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/177 Sponsor Links Omohundro Institute The Georgian Papers Programme Citizen Transcriber Sign Up OI Reader App Complementary Episodes Episode 015: Joyce Chaplin, Round About The Earth Episode 050: Marla Miller, Betsy Ross Episode 136: Jennifer Van Horn, Material Culture and the Making of America Episode 138: Patrick Spero, Frontier Politics in Early America Episode 167: Eberhard Faber, The Early History of New Orleans Episode 169: Thomas Kidd, The Religious Life of Benjamin Franklin Helpful Show Links Ben Franklin's World Facebook Page Join the Ben Franklin's World Community Sign-up for the Franklin Gazette Newsletter Ben Franklin's World iOS App Ben Franklin's World Android App *Books purchased through this link will help support the production of Ben Franklin's World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ben Franklin's World is a production of the
0:02.2	O'Mohandro Institute and the sponsor for this episode is the Georgian Papers
0:06.1	Program.
0:07.1	Welcome to Ben Franklin's World,
0:10.7	podcast about Early American History with Liz Covert.
0:14.0	The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can affect the better future.
0:20.0	Ben Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present day world.
0:27.0	And now, here's your host, Liz Koval.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to episode 177 of Ben Franklin's world.
0:34.8	The podcast dedicated to helping you,
0:37.2	learn more about how the people and events of our early American past
0:40.5	have shaped the present day world we live in.
0:43.3	Did you know that maps have social lives?
0:46.0	I admit, it's kind of weird to think about an inanimate object as having a social life,
0:50.5	and yet maps do indeed have social lives.
0:54.0	Maps actually facilitate a lot of different social and political relationships between people and nations.
1:00.0	And they did a lot of this work for Americans throughout the early American past.
1:04.0	Martin Brookner, a professor of English at the University of Delaware,
1:08.0	joins us to discuss early American maps and early American mapmaking
1:11.0	with details from his book The Social Life of Maps in America. and
1:15.0	as we explore maps in America, and as we explore maps and mapmaking in early America,
1:18.0	Martin reveals,
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