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Author Strang, Cameron B., author.

Title Frontiers of science : imperialism and natural knowledge in the Gulf South borderlands, 1500-1850 / Cameron B. Strang
Published Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

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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
Subject Nature study -- Gulf States -- History
Nature study -- Political aspects -- Gulf States
Borderlands -- History
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Borderlands
Intellectual life
Nature study
Territorial expansion
SUBJECT Gulf States -- Intellectual life -- History
United States -- Territorial expansion -- History
Europe -- Colonies -- History
Gulf States -- Intellectual life
Subject United States
United States -- Gulf States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, publisher.
ISBN 9781469640488
1469640481
9781469640495
146964049X