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Star territory : printing the universe in nineteenth-century America
- Title
- Star territory : printing the universe in nineteenth-century America / Gordon Fraser.
- Author
- Fraser, Gordon, 1981-
- Publication
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- 221 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The cosmic aspirations of present-day United States nationalists are not recent developments. Efforts to control and exploit the universe have deep roots in the nineteenth century. From John Adams to military explorer John C. Frémont to astronomer Maria Mitchell, officials and agents of the United States participated in a large-scale effort to map the new nation onto cosmic space, what Henry David Thoreau referred to as "star territory." Many nineteenth-century dissenters against an emerging regime of U.S. space power saw in the tools of astronomy, land surveying, and navigation a means of producing alternatives to that regime"--
- Series Statement
- Material texts
- Uniform Title
- Material texts.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Astronomical literature > United States > History > 19th century
- Astronomy > Political aspects > History > United States > 19th century
- Astronomy and state > United States > History > 19th century
- Astronomy > United States > History > 19th century
- Astronomical literature
- Astronomy
- Astronomy and state
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-1923
- ISBN
- 9780812252927
- 0812252926
- LCCN
- 2021007067
- OCLC
- 1199328766
- Author
- Fraser, Gordon, 1981- author.
- Title
- Star territory : printing the universe in nineteenth-century America / Gordon Fraser.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Material textsMaterial texts.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-1923