| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the significance of the frontier in American knowledge -- 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 -- Epilogue: how the west was known. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gulf States -- Intellectual life -- History.
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Nature study -- Gulf States -- History.
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Nature study. |
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History. |
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Nature study -- Political aspects -- Gulf States.
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Borderlands -- History.
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Borderlands. |
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United States -- Territorial expansion -- History.
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United States. |
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Territorial expansion. |
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Europe -- Colonies -- History.
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Europe. |
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Colonies. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, publisher.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Strang, Cameron B. Frontiers of science. Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] 9781469640471 (DLC) 2018004390 (OCoLC)1022987364 |
| ISBN |
9781469640488 (electronic book) |
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1469640481 (electronic book) |
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9781469640495 (electronic book) |
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146964049X (electronic book) |
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9781469640471 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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1469640473 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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