000			04862nam a22006375i 4500
001			199489
003			IT-RoAPU
005			20221214233127.0
006			m|||||o||d||||||||
007			cr || ||||||||
008			221201t20212021pau fo d z eng d
020			_a9780812297904 _qPDF
024	7		_a10.9783/9780812297904 _2doi
035			_a(DE-B1597)9780812297904
035			_a(DE-B1597)573126
035			_a(OCoLC)1244628916
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
050		4	_aQB33.U6 _bF73 2021
072		7	_aHIS036040 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a303.48/3097309034 _223
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aFraser, Gordon _eautore
245	1	0	_aStar Territory : _bPrinting the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America / _cGordon Fraser.
264		1	_aPhiladelphia : _bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a1 online resource (264 p.) : _b11 halftones, 7 tables
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aMaterial Texts
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tIntroduction -- _tChapter 1. Almanacs in the Astronomical Nation -- _tChapter 2. The Emancipatory Cosmology of the First Black Press -- _tChapter 3. Cherokee Astronomy -- _tChapter 4. The National Almanac in Peace and War -- _tChapter 5. Hawaiian Cosmography in Print -- _tEpilogue. The Third Space Age -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex -- _tAcknowledgments
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aThe 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.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
650		0	_aAstronomical literature _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aAstronomy and state _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aAstronomy _xPolitical aspects _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aAstronomy _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		4	_aHistory-United States.
650		4	_aLiterature (Scholarly).
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 19th Century. _2bisacsh
653			_aAmerican History.
653			_aAmerican Studies.
653			_aCultural Studies.
653			_aGeneral.
653			_aLiterature.
653			_aScience.
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297904?locatt=mode:legacy
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812297904
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812297904/original
942			_cEB
999			_c199489 _d199489