Across the continent : Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the making of America

Publication Data

• Title Across the continent : Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the making of America
• Contributors Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, Peter S. Onuf
• Publisher University of Virginia Press
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location Charlottesville, Va.
• Language English

Contents

Introduction : geopolitics, science, and culture conflicts / Peter S. Onuf and Jeffrey L. Hantman
Jefferson's Pacific : the science of distant empire, 1768-1811 / Alan Taylor
Securing America : Jefferson's fluid plans for the western perimeter / Jenry Morsman
Thomas Jefferson's conflicted legacy in American archaeology / David Hurst Thomas
A nation imagined, a nation measured : the Jeffersonian legacy / Kenneth Prewitt
Oñate's foot : histories, landscapes, and contested memories in the Southwest / Douglas Seefeldt.

Topics

• Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
• Explorers :: West (U.S.) :: History :: 19th century
• West (U.S.) :: Discovery and exploration
• United States :: Territorial expansion
• West (U.S.) :: History :: To 1848
• West (U.S.)
• United States

Across the continent : Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the making of America. ISBN 0813923131. Published by University of Virginia Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.