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Star Territory
Author | : Gordon Fraser |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2021-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812297904 |
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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.
Dark Star Territory
Author | : Nathan Skaggs |
Publsiher | : BookRix |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2013-09-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9783730950425 |
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Simulacrum Government forces intend to enslave the surrounding alien worlds while Naso, a brilliant scientist, secretly launches an expedition to an unknown star. Simulacrum's efforts are complicated when a powerful alien race emerges from the shadows. On an uncharted planet, Naso learns of an ancient connection between his planet and the newly discovered alien race. Naso's return to Simulacrum is blocked by warships due to hysteria following the alien arrival.
Star Territory
Author | : Gordon Fraser |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2021-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812252927 |
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In Star Territory Gordon Fraser charts how the project of rationalizing the cosmos enabled the nineteenth-century expansion of U.S. territory and explores the alternative and resistant cosmologies of free and enslaved Blacks and indigenous peoples.
Annual Report Upon the Geographical Surveys of the Territory of the United States West of the 100th Meridian in the States and Territories of California Colorado Kansas Nebraska Nevada Oregon Texas Arizona Idaho Montana New Mexico Utah Washington and Wyoming
Author | : Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (U.S.),George Montague Wheeler |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Discoveries in geography |
ISBN | : IND:30000129136978 |
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Author | : 耳根 |
Publsiher | : 露露 |
Total Pages | : 727 |
Release | : 2023-05-04 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9781304667588 |
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Wang Lin's expression was as usual, but his heart was moved. What he saw in the illusion was clearly six pictures with the word "war". Wang Lin remained calm, clasped his fists respectfully and said, "Thank you, senior Lieyunzi
1970 Census of Population
Author | : United States. Bureau of the Census |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105022637826 |
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Planning Salesmen s Territories
Author | : Gustav Emil Bittner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Sales personnel |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112104068793 |
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The Tribune Almanac and Political Register
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Almanacs, American |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433081727350 |
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