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Moral Geography : Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier.
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| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Religion and American Culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Acnowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Benevolent Design: Mapping the Landscape; Mappers and Missionaries; The Connecticut Land Company: Mapping; In regard to the Heathen on our borders": Erasing the Natives; "The most benevolent designs": Missionary Publications; 2. Models of Piety: Protestant Missionaries on the Frontier; "I find I can preach, if I can ride": Missionary Letters; Difficulties inseparable to a family": Age, Marital Status, and Missions; "I have no prospect of being popular": Social Status and Missionary Labor.
- "Book knowledge is not all": The Heart, Not the Head"Born and raised in the woods": Homegrown Missionaries; 3. The Moral Garden of the Western World: Bodies, Towns, and Families; "Nurseries of piety": Body, Town, and Family; "A considerable phalanx of infidelity": Religious Rivalry and the Body; "Scattered promiscuously over the face of the country": Town Planning and Moral Order; "One great step towards a state of barbarism": Family and Home Order; 4. Geography Made Easy: Geographies and Travel Literature; Geography Made Easy: Mapping and Moralizing; Domestic Travel Narratives.
- Fairy-Tale Reports: Western Reserve Travel LiteratureA Correct View: New Connecticut as the Promised Land; 5. A Beacon in the WIlderness: Moral Inscriptions on the Landscape; The Oberlin Colony and Institute; Building Up Society: Missionary Institutions; Ecclesiastical Outlaws; Moral and Spatial Order; Conclusion: Moral Geography; Notes; Bibliography; Index.