The Nation's Nature: How Continental Presumptions Gave Rise to the United States of America

by James David Drake

In one of Common Sense 's most ringing phrases, Thomas Paine declared it "absurd" for "a continent to be perpetually governed by an island." Such powerful words, coupled with powerful ideas, helped spur the United States to independence. In The Nation's Nature, James D. Drake examines how a relatively small number of inhabitants of the Americas, huddled along North America's east coast, came to mentally appropriate the entire continent and to think...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813931223
• ISBN13: 9780813931227
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher