Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 349 g
Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 349 g
Reihe: Religion and American Culture
ISBN: 978-0-231-12789-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press
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. Moral Geography provides a fresh approach to understanding nineteenth-century Protestant home missions in Ohio's Western Reserve. Through the use of maps, letters, religious tracts, travel narratives, and geographical texts, Amy DeRogatis recovers the struggles of settlers, land surveyors, missionaries, and geographers as they sought to reconcile their hopes and expectations for a Promised Land with the realities of life on the early American frontier.
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Fachgebiete
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regionalgeographie
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
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Introduction1. The Benevolent Design: Mapping the Landscape2. Models of Piety: Protestant Missionaries on the Frontier3. The Moral Garden of the Western World: Bodies, Towns, and Families4. Geography Made Easy: Geographies and Travel Literature5. A Beacon in the Wilderness: Moral Inscriptions on the LandscapeConclusion: Moral Geography
