The nation's nature
Subtitle: how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America
By: James D. Drake
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780813931227; 9780813931395
Subjects: Historical geography; Territorial expansion; Geographical perception; Nationalism; Causes; History
Notes: "Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies ."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-383) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the historical role of an imagined place; title: Scientific trends, continental conceptions, revolutionary implications; title: The geopolitical continent, 1713-1763; title: Continental crisis, 1763-1774; title: Nationalism's nature : Congress's continental aspect; title: Nationalism's nurture : war, peace, and the continental character of the United States, 1775-1783; title: Ordering lands and peoples : scientific and imperial contexts of the late eighteenth century; title: Seizing nature's advantages : the Constitution and the continent, 1783-1789; title: Epilogue : the continent from on high.