{"product_id":"the-nations-nature-how-continental-presumptions-gave-rise-to-the-united-states-of-america-9780813931227","title":"The Nation's Nature: How Continental Presumptions Gave Rise to the United States of America","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): James D. Drake\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one of \u003ci\u003eCommon Sense\u003c\/i\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Nation's Nature, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 of their nation as America. Drake demonstrates how British North American colonists' participation in scientific debates and imperial contests shaped their notions of global geography. These ideas, in turn, solidified American nationalism, spurred a revolution, and shaped the ratification of the Constitution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Virginia Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46867559481495,"sku":"9780813931227","price":6128.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780813931227.webp?v=1769986219","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-nations-nature-how-continental-presumptions-gave-rise-to-the-united-states-of-america-9780813931227","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}