The nation's nature : how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America

Drake, James David, 1968-

2011, Book , xii, 402 pages :

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Publication information:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
ISBN:	0813931223 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN:	9780813931227 (cloth : alk. paper)
Language:	English
Record ID:	3050822
Format:	Regular Print Book
Physical description:	xii, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Date acquired:	January 8, 2014
More creator details:	James D. Drake.
General note:	"Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies ."
Contents note:	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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