Frontiers of Science : Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 /

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'Frontiers of Science' takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the production of knowledge about the natural world in the context of competing empires and an expanding republic in the Gulf Sout...

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Autor principal: Strang, Cameron B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Territorial expansion.
Nature study.
Intellectual life.
Borderlands.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Regions frontalieres > Histoire.
Nature > Étude et enseignement > Aspect politique > États du Golfe (États-Unis)
Nature > Étude et enseignement > États du Golfe (États-Unis) > Histoire.
Borderlands > History.
Nature study > Political aspects > Gulf States.
Nature study > Gulf States > History.
United States > Gulf States.
United States.
Europe > Colonies > Histoire.
États-Unis > Expansion territoriale > Histoire.
États du Golfe (États-Unis) > Vie intellectuelle > Histoire.
Europe > Colonies > History.
United States > Territorial expansion > History.
Gulf States > Intellectual life > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the significance of the frontier in American knowledge
  • Violence, competition, and exchange in the early colonial era
  • Knowledge, weakness, and narrative in the late eighteenth century
  • Astronomy and U.S. expansion in the Lower Mississippi valley
  • Allegiance, identities, and national scientific communities
  • Ethnography and intelligence in the time of conquest
  • Deep history, deep South: slavery and geology in the antebellum era
  • Skulls, scalps, and Seminoles
  • Epilogue: how the west was known.

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