Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
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 |
Summary |
'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 South |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Nature study -- Gulf States -- History
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Nature study -- Political aspects -- Gulf States
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Borderlands -- History
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Borderlands
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Intellectual life
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Nature study
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Territorial expansion
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Gulf States -- Intellectual life -- History
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United States -- Territorial expansion -- History
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Europe -- Colonies -- History
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Gulf States -- Intellectual life
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United States
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United States -- Gulf States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, publisher.
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ISBN |
9781469640488 |
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1469640481 |
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9781469640495 |
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146964049X |
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