The nation's nature [electronic resource] : how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America / James D. Drake.
Drake, James David, 1968-
2011
E179.5 .D827 2011eb
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The nation's nature [electronic resource] : how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America / James D. Drake.
Author
Drake, James David, 1968-
ISBN
9780813931227 (cloth alk. paper)
0813931223 (cloth alk. paper)
9780813931395 (e-book)
Publication Details
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xii, 402 p. : ill., maps.
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E179.5 .D827 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.3/1
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"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies ."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-383) and index.
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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.

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