News
Events
Blogs
Across the continent : Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the making of America /
"An obscure undertaking in its own time, the Lewis and Clark expedition has grown in the American imagination, acquiring an almost mythic stature. Arriving as the country commemorates the expedition's bicentennial, Across the Continent is not an exercise in demythologizing; rather, it is a...
Saved in:
| Contributors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2005.
|
| Subjects and Genres: | |
| Online Access: | Table of contents |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of 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.