Frontiers of Science : Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 / / Cameron B. Strang

• Autore: Strang Cameron B.
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2018]; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2018; ©[2018]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 976
• Soggetto topico: Borderlands - History; Nature study - Political aspects - Gulf States; Nature study - Gulf States - History
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Colonies History; United States Territorial expansion History; Gulf States Intellectual life History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: '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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Frontiers of Science
• ISBN: 979-88-908509-7-3; 979-88-908509-8-0; 1-4696-4048-1; 1-4696-4049-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911026078803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: North Carolina scholarship online.