Star Territory : : Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America / / Gordon Fraser.
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 wer...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| प्रकाशन का वर्ष : | 2021 |
| भाषा: | English |
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| भौतिक वर्णन: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 11 halftones, 7 tables |
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विषय - सूची:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Almanacs in the Astronomical Nation
- Chapter 2. The Emancipatory Cosmology of the First Black Press
- Chapter 3. Cherokee Astronomy
- Chapter 4. The National Almanac in Peace and War
- Chapter 5. Hawaiian Cosmography in Print
- Epilogue. The Third Space Age
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments