Author: Marcus Davis GilmanPublisher: Burlington : Free Press association
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Bibliography of Vermont
Author: Marcus Davis GilmanPublisher: Burlington : Free Press association
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Author index
Author: Phinney's Calendar, Or, Western Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: Andrew BeersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Date index
Author: Star Territory
Author: Gordon FraserPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new constellation" in the firmament of nations. The streets and avenues of its capital city were mapped in reference to celestial observations. And as the nineteenth century unfolded, all efforts to colonize the North American continent depended upon the science of surveying, or mapping with reference to celestial movement. Through its built environment, cultural mythology, and exercise of military power, the United States has always treated the cosmos as a territory available for exploitation. In Star Territory Fraser explores how from its beginning, agents of the state, including President John Adams, Admiral Charles Henry Davis, and astronomer Maria Mitchell, participated in large-scale efforts to map the nation onto cosmic space. Through almanacs, maps, and star charts, practical information and exceptionalist mythologies were transmitted to the nation's soldiers, scientists, and citizens. This is, however, only one part of the story Fraser tells. From the country's first Black surveyors, seamen, and publishers to the elected officials of the Cherokee Nation and Hawaiian resistance leaders, other actors established alternative cosmic communities. These Black and indigenous astronomers, prophets, and printers offered ways of understanding the heavens that broke from the work of the U.S. officials for whom the universe was merely measurable and exploitable. Today, NASA administrators advocate public-private partnerships for the development of space commerce while the military seeks to control strategic regions above the atmosphere. If observers imagine that these developments are the direct offshoots of a mid-twentieth-century space race, Fraser brilliantly demonstrates otherwise. The United States' efforts to exploit the cosmos, as well as the resistance to these efforts, have a history that starts nearly two centuries before the Gemini and Apollo missions of the 1960s.
Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society
Author: New Jersey Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Issues for Oct. 1927 and Oct. 1930 contain sections of a serial article by John C. Honeyman on the history of Zion, St. Paul and other early Lutheran churches in New Jersey.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Author: