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Autore |
Kastor Peter J |
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Titolo |
William Clark's world [[electronic resource] ] : describing America in an age of unknowns / / Peter J. Kastor |
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New Haven [Conn.], : Yale University Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-09619-6 |
9786613096197 |
0-300-16855-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (355 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Lamar series in western history |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Description (Rhetoric) - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
West (U.S.) Description and travel |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-333) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note on Terms -- Introduction -- Prologue -- 1. A Western Future -- 2. Three Treaties, One Nation -- 3. Expansion -- 4. Explorers -- 5. Careers -- Books -- 7. Return to the West -- 8. Moving The Far West -- Conclusion: A Western History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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William Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to bring an unknown continent to life for the young republic? Through Clark's life and career, this book explores how the West entered the American imagination. While he never called himself a writer or an artist, Clark nonetheless drew maps, produced books, drafted reports, surveyed landscapes, and wrote journals that made sense of the West for a new nation fascinated by the region's potential but also fearful of its dangers. William Clark's World presents a new take on the manifest destiny narrative and on the way the West took shape in the national imagination in the early nineteenth century. |
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