Strang, Cameron B.,

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.


Electronic Books.

F296 / .F766 2018