Frontiers of science : imperialism and natural knowledge in the Gulf South borderlands, 1500-1850 / Cameron B. Strang.
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TextPublisher: Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781469640488
- 1469640481
- 9781469640495
- 146964049X
- Gulf States -- Intellectual life -- History
- Nature study -- Gulf States -- History
- Nature study -- Political aspects -- Gulf States
- Borderlands -- History
- United States -- Territorial expansion -- History
- Europe -- Colonies -- History
- États du Golfe (États-Unis) -- Vie intellectuelle -- Histoire
- Nature -- Étude et enseignement -- États du Golfe (États-Unis) -- Histoire
- Nature -- Étude et enseignement -- Aspect politique -- États du Golfe (États-Unis)
- Régions frontalières -- Histoire
- États-Unis -- Expansion territoriale -- Histoire
- Europe -- Colonies -- Histoire
- 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
- United States
- United States -- Gulf States
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- F296 .S77 2018eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
'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.
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