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Article: Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- February 1, 2007
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Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America. Edited by Douglas Seefeldt, Jeffrey L. Hantman, and Peter S. Onuf. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2005. Pp. x, 222. Paper, $19.50, ISBN 978-0-8139-2595-0; cloth, $29.50, ISBN 0-8139-2313-1.)
This superb collection of essays is difficult to summarize. Nevertheless, a few connecting themes emerge relatively clearly. For a volume commemorating the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition, the writers offer us very little on the expedition itself. In fact, outside of the first two essays, most of the authors either use the expedition as a springboard to a ...
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... ... 011981 0-8139-2313-1 Across the continent; Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the making of America. Title main entry ... expedition and at the interest in science, shared by Jefferson, that both justified its undertaking and was fueled ...
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