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Across The Continent : Jefferson, Lewis And Clark, And The Making Of America

Attribution
edited by Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, Peter S. Onuf
Publication Details
Book, University of Virginia Press, 2005
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Description
An obscure undertaking in its own time, the Lewis and Clark expedition has grown in the American imagination, acquiring an almost mythic stature. The essays collected here look at the global geopolitics that provided the context for the expedition — and at the interest in science, shared by Jefferson, that not only grew from the expedition but, to an extent, justified its undertaking. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Subject
Places in this work
- West (U.S.)
- United States
Contents
- Introduction : geopolitics, science, and culture conflicts / Peter S. Onuf and Jeffrey L. Hantman
- Jefferson’s Pacific : the science of distant empire, 1768-1811 / Alan Taylor
- Securing America : Jefferson’s fluid plans for the western perimeter / Jenry Morsman
- Thomas Jefferson’s conflicted legacy in American archaeology / David Hurst Thomas
- A nation imagined, a nation measured : the Jeffersonian legacy / Kenneth Prewitt
- Oñate’s foot : histories, landscapes, and contested memories in the Southwest / Douglas Seefeldt
ISBN
- 0813923131
LCCN
- 2004011981
Open Library ID
- /b/OL3293052M