Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America

by Gordon Fraser

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252926
• ISBN13: 9780812252927
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"