Format:
221 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
ISBN:
9780812252927
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0812252926
Series Statement:
Material texts
Content:
"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"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis Seite [199]-212. - Index
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
USA
;
Astronomie
;
Vermessung
;
Weltraumpolitik
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
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