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The nation's nature

by Drake, James David,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : University of Virginia Press, (Charlottesville :) Physical details: xii, 402 p. : ill., maps.
Subject(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. | Electronic books.
Year: 2011
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"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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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