American Iconographic: National Geographic, Global Culture, and the Visual Imagination

by Stephanie L. Hawkins

Book Overview

In an era before affordable travel, National Geographic not only served as the first glimpse of countless other worlds for its readers, but it helped them confront sweeping historical change. There was a time when its cover, with the unmistakable yellow frame, seemed to be on every coffee table, in every waiting room. In American Iconographic, Stephanie L. Hawkins traces National Geographic's rise to cultural prominence, from its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813929660
• ISBN13: 9780813929668
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"