Frontiers of science : imperialism and natural knowledge in the Gulf South borderlands, 1500-1850 /
Cameron B. Strang.
- Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; (c)2018. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9781469640488 9781469640495
Nature study--History.--Gulf States Nature study--Political aspects--Gulf States. Borderlands--History.