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Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 - Couverture rigide

Strang, Cameron B.

 
9781469640471: Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1469640473 ISBN 13 : 9781469640471
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2018

Synopsis

Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the production of knowledge about the natural world in the context of competing empires and an expanding republic in the Gulf South. People often dismissed by starched northeasterners as nonintellectuals -- Indian sages, African slaves, Spanish officials, Irishmen on the make, clearers of land and drivers of men -- were also scientific observers, gatherers, organizers, and reporters. Skulls and stems, birds and bugs, rocks and maps, tall tales and fertile hypotheses came from them. They collected, described, and sent the objects that scientists gazed on and interpreted in polite Philadelphia. They made knowledge.

Frontiers of Science offers a new framework for approaching American intellectual history, one that transcends political and cultural boundaries and reveals persistence across the colonial and national eras. The pursuit of knowledge in the United States did not cohere around democratic politics or the influence of liberty. It was, as in other empires, divided by multiple loyalties and identities, organized through contested hierarchies of ethnicity and place, and reliant on violence. By discovering the lost intellectual history of one region, Strang shows us how to recover a continent for science.

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À propos de l'auteur

Cameron B. Strang is assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469640473
ISBN 13 
9781469640471
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
376
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