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Drake James David <1968->
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Titolo: |
The nation's nature [[electronic resource] ] : how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America / / James D. Drake
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Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
Disciplina: | 973.3/1 |
Soggetto topico: | Geographical perception - United States - History - 18th century |
Nationalism - United States - History - 18th century | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Historical geography |
United States History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | |
United States Territorial expansion | |
United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Causes | |
Note generali: | "Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies ." |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-383) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The nation's nature ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-280-49057-8 |
9786613585806 | |
0-8139-3139-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910779051203321 |
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