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By delvinginto the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize anypolitical project as rampant as empire, thisthought-provoking study focusesonchildrenand their ambivalent, intimate relationships with mapsandpracticesof mappingat the dawn of the 'American Century.'Considering children as students, map and puzzle makers, letter writers, and playmates, Mahshid Mayar interrogates the ways turn-of-the-century American children encountered, made sense of, and produced spatial narratives and cognitive maps of the United States and the world.Mayar further probeshow children's diverse patterns of consuming, relating to, andappropriatingthe 'truths' that maps represent turned cartography into a site ofpersonal andpoliticalcontention.To investigate where in the world the United States imagined itself at the end of the nineteenth century,this book calls for new modes of mapping the United Statesas it studies the nationon regional, hemispheric, and global scales.By examining the multilayered liaison between imperial pedagogy and geopolitical literacy across a wide range of archival evidence, Mayar delivers a careful microhistorical study of U.S. empire.