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Dean, David R.

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Soldiers and scientists: The politics of exploring the American West, 1803--1879.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Soldiers and scientists: The politics of exploring the American West, 1803--1879./
Author:	Dean, David R.
Description:	416 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Brooks D. Simpson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-06A.
Subject:	History, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3220292
ISBN:	9780542741746

Soldiers and scientists: The politics of exploring the American West, 1803--1879.
Dean, David R.

Soldiers and scientists: The politics of exploring the American West, 1803--1879. - 416 p.

Adviser: Brooks D. Simpson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2006.

The nineteenth century exploration of the American West was a period of competition. While much has been written about Western explorers (e.g. Lewis and Clark, John C. Fremont, John Wesley Powell) very little work has been devoted to the politics that surround the various expeditions and the role of presidential administrations, congressional leaders, and agency bureaucrats in exploring the intermountain West during the period of 1803 to 1879. The political forces of competition determined how politics defined, shaped, or explain the motive force for western expansion. This study places exploration of the American West within the larger narrative of empire in order to show the relationship between international, domestic, and intermestic competition that characterized the politics between the explorers and those that sent them out and waited for their return. It also demonstrates how the management of exploring activities shifted from Presidential to Congressional leadership, ending in a return to the Executive Branch in 1879. By examining the forces of competition that provided the impetus for exploration, the purpose of these endeavors to define, observe, and record western lands, is better understood.

ISBN: 9780542741746Subjects--Topical Terms:

516334
History, Modern.

Soldiers and scientists: The politics of exploring the American West, 1803--1879.
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