The nation's nature : how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America / James D. Drake.
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TextPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 402 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813931395
- 0813931398
- 1280490578
- 9781280490576
- 9786613585806
- 6613585807
- Geographical perception -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- United States -- Historical geography
- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- United States -- Territorial expansion
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes
- Perception géographique -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Nationalisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- États-Unis -- Histoire -- ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
- États-Unis -- Expansion territoriale
- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 1775-1783 (Révolution) -- Causes
- HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- War -- Causes
- Geographical perception
- Historical geography
- Nationalism
- Territorial expansion
- United States
- American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783)
- 1600-1799
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- E179.5 .D827 2011eb
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"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-383) and index.
Introduction : the historical role of an imagined place -- Scientific trends, continental conceptions, revolutionary implications -- The geopolitical continent, 1713-1763 -- Continental crisis, 1763-1774 -- Nationalism's nature : Congress's continental aspect -- Nationalism's nurture : war, peace, and the continental character of the United States, 1775-1783 -- Ordering lands and peoples : scientific and imperial contexts of the late eighteenth century -- Seizing nature's advantages : the Constitution and the continent, 1783-1789 -- Epilogue : the continent from on high.
English.
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