Author: David YoungPublisher:
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Hutchins' Improved Almanac and Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: David YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
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.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Author index
Author: 1831
Author: Louis P. MasurPublisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 146680680X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years meant to American history. But wars and economic disasters are not our only pivotal events, and other years have, in a quieter way, swayed the course of our nation. 1831 was one of them, and in this striking new work, Louis Masur shows us exactly how. The year began with a solar eclipse, for many an omen of mighty changes -- and for once, such predictions held true. Nat Turner's rebellion soon followed, then ever-more violent congressional arguments over slavery and tarrifs. Religious revivalism swept the North, and important observers (including Tocqueville) traveled the land, forming the opinions that would shape the world's view of America for generations to come. New technologies, meanwhile, were dramatically changing Americans' relationship with the land, and Andrew Jackson's harsh policies toward the Cherokee erased most Indians' last hopes of autonomy. As Masur's analysis makes clear, by 1831 it was becoming all too certain that political rancor, the struggle over slavery, the pursuit of individualism, and technological development might eclipse the glorious potential of the early republic--and lead the nation to secession and civil war. This is an innovative and challenging interpretation of a key moment in antibellum America.
New Serial Titles
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
American Bibliography: 1793-1794
Author: Charles EvansPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
American Bibliography: 1751-1764
Author: Charles EvansPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Author: