The nation's nature [electronic resource] : how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America / James D. Drake.
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TextPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.Description: xii, 402 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): - Geographical perception -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- United States -- Historical geography
- United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- United States -- Territorial expansion
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes
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- E179.5 .D827 2011
"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies ."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-383) and index.
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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