The nation's nature how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America /
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2011.
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Sommario:
- 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.