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Frontiers of science : imperialism and natural knowledge in the Gulf South borderlands, 1500-1850
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- Creator
- Cameron B. Strang
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- Language
- English
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- Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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- xiv, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781469640471, 1469640481, 146964049X, 9798890850980, 9781469640488, 1469640473, 9781469640495
- OCLC
- on1040072278, on1022987364
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: the significance of the frontier in American knowledge -- Chapter 1. Violence, competition, and exchange in the early colonial era -- Chapter 2. Knowledge, weakness, and narrative in the late eighteenth century -- Chapter 3. Astronomy and U.S. expansion in the Lower Mississippi valley -- Chapter 4. Allegiance, identities, and national scientific communities -- Chapter 5. Ethnography and intelligence in the time of conquest -- Chapter 6. Deep history, deep South : slavery and geology in the antebellum era -- Chapter 7. Skulls, scalps, and Seminoles -- Epilogue: how the west was known