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Amidst all the nationalistic and romantic celebrations of the famous explorers, it is often forgotte...
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Amidst all the nationalistic and romantic celebrations of the famous explorers, it is often forgotten that they were not on a merry jaunt but had been charged with a specific mission: to find a geographic route by which the commerce and politics of the US could be extended to the Pacific Ocean. The 2003 bicentennial conference in Philadelphia focused on the role of Philadelphia in the expedition. Seven papers discuss such aspects as the imperial contradictions of Republican political economy in Philadelphia during the era, the cultural work of public exhibitions in western fauna in Lewis and Clark's Philadelphia, and the 19th-century scientific opinion of the expedition. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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