Frontiers of science : imperialism and natural knowledge in the Gulf South borderlands, 1500-1850
2018
976 S897 2018
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Title
Frontiers of science : imperialism and natural knowledge in the Gulf South borderlands, 1500-1850
Variant Title
Imperialism and natural knowledge in the Gulf South borderlands, 1500-1850
Published
Williamsburg, VA : Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Description
xiv, 357 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
976 S897 2018
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1022987364
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Introduction: the significance of the frontier in American knowledge -- 1. Violence, competition, and exchange in the early colonial era -- 2. Knowledge, weakness, and narrative in the late eighteenth century -- 3. Astronomy and U.S. expansion in the Lower Mississippi valley -- 4. Allegiance, identities, and national scientific communities -- 5. Ethnography and intelligence in the time of conquest -- 6. Deep history, deep South : slavery and geology in the antebellum era -- 7. Skulls, scalps, and Seminoles -- Epilogue: how the west was known.
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Contents: Introduction: the significance of the frontier in American knowledge -- 1. Violence, competition, and exchange in the early colonial era -- 2. Knowledge, weakness, and narrative in the late eighteenth century -- 3. Astronomy and U.S. expansion in the Lower Mississippi valley -- 4. Allegiance, identities, and national scientific communities -- 5. Ethnography and intelligence in the time of conquest -- 6. Deep history, deep South : slavery and geology in the antebellum era -- 7. Skulls, scalps, and Seminoles -- Epilogue: how the west was known.
L2018G52
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