02737oam 22006254a 450 991102607880332120180617030003.0979-88-908509-7-3979-88-908509-8-01-4696-4048-11-4696-4049-X(CKB)4100000004834814(OCoLC)1040072278(MdBmJHUP)muse68592(MiAaPQ)EBC5428233(StDuBDS)EDZ0002052605(EXLCZ)99410000000483481420180201d2018 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFrontiers of ScienceImperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 /Cameron B. StrangChapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press,[2018]Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2018©[2018]1 online resourceNorth Carolina scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2018.1-4696-4047-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.'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.North Carolina scholarship online.BorderlandsHistoryNature studyPolitical aspectsGulf StatesNature studyGulf StatesHistoryEuropeColoniesHistoryUnited StatesTerritorial expansionHistoryGulf StatesIntellectual lifeHistoryElectronic books. BorderlandsHistory.Nature studyPolitical aspectsNature studyHistory.976976Strang Cameron B.1847745Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture,MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9911026078803321Frontiers of Science4433740UNINA