Star Territory - Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America

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.

List of contents

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

Acknowledgments

About the author

Gordon Fraser

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Gordon Fraser
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780812252927
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5292-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Material Texts
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous