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Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press ; Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2018

1 online resource (376 pages)

ISBN 9781469640488 (e-book)

ISBN 9781469640495 (e-book)

ISBN 9781469640471

Print version: Strang, Cameron B. Frontiers of science : imperialism and natural knowledge in the Gulf South borderlands, 1500-1850. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press ; Williamsburg, Virginia : Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, c2018 376 pages ISBN 9781469640471

Includes bibliographical references 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.

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(OCoLC)1040072278