The nation's nature how continental presumptions gave rise to the United States of America

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ISBN: 0813931223 (cloth alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780813931227 (cloth alk. paper)
ISBN: 0813931398 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780813931395 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 402 p.) : ill., maps.
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Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

General Note:	CatBulkString:jan.10.13 "Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies." CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-383) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : the historical role of an imagined place -- Scientific trends, continental conceptions, revolutionary implications -- The geopolitical continent, 1713-1763 -- Continental crisis, 1763-1774 -- Nationalism's nature : Congress's continental aspect -- Nationalism's nurture : war, peace, and the continental character of the United States, 1775-1783 -- Ordering lands and peoples : scientific and imperial contexts of the late eighteenth century -- Seizing nature's advantages : the Constitution and the continent, 1783-1789 -- Epilogue : the continent from on high.
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