UID:
edocfu_9958351691302883
Format:
1 online resource (256 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2003. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780231508599
Series Statement:
Religion and American Culture
Content:
Moral Geography traces the development of a moral basis for American expansionism, as Protestant missionaries, using biblical language and metaphors, imaginatively conjoined the cultivation of souls with the cultivation of land and made space sacred. While the political implications of the mapping of American expansion have been much studied, this is the first major study of the close and complex relationship between mapping and missionizing on the American frontier.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1. The Benevolent Design --
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Chapter 2. Models of Piety --
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Chapter 3. The Moral Garden of the Western World --
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Chapter 4. Geography Made Easy --
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Chapter 5. A Beacon in the Wilderness --
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Conclusion: Moral Geography --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index.
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In English.
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/dero12788
