The nation's nature : how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America
2011
973.31 D761 2011
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Title
The nation's nature : how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Description
xii, 402 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
973.31 D761 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)694283187
Note
"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-383) and index.
Contents: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-383) and index.
Contents: 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.
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