Exploration and empire; the explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West,
Gespeichert in:
- Weitere Titel:
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PART ONE: Exploration and Imperialism: 1805-45 --
CHAPTER I: Westward the Clash of Empires --
CHAPTER II: The Rediscovery of the Southwest --
CHAPTER III: Canada Moves South --
CHAPTER IV: The Mountain Men --
CHAPTER V: Something More Than Beaver --
CHAPTER VI: The Romantic Horizon --
PART TWO: The Great Reconnaissance and Manifest Destiny: 1845-60 --
CHAPTER VII: When the Eagle Screamed: The Explorer as Diplomat in the Final Clash of Imperial Energies --
CHAPTER VIII: In Search of an Iron Trail --
CHAPTER IX: The Great Reconnaissance --
PART THREE: Exploration and the Great Surveys: 1860-1900 --
Chapter X: The New Mountain Men: California's Geological Survey --
Chapter XI: The Army Way --
Chapter XII: The West of Clarence King --
CHAPTER XIII: The Last Stand of the Army Explorer --
CHAPTER XIV: F.W. Hayden: Gilded Age Explorer --
CHAPTER XV: John Wesley Powell: The Explorer as Reformer --
CHAPTER XVI Epilogue: Beyond the Explorer's Frontier - 1. Verfasser:
- Format:
- Elektronisch E-Book
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- Veröffentlicht:
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New York,
Knopf,
1966.
- Ausgabe:
- [1st ed.]
- Umfang:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 656, xviii p.) illus., maps.
- Bibliografie:
- "A note on the sources": p. 649-656.
- ISBN:
- 0-393-00881-9
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