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  • Introduction : the geographic revolution in the wilderness
  • The surveyed self : geodesy, writing, and colonial identity in eighteenth-century British America
  • The continent speaks : geography, oratory, and the figuration of identity in revolutionary America
  • Maps, spellers, and the semiotics of nationalism in the early republic
  • Geography textbooks and reading national character
  • Novel geographies of the republic
  • Native American geographies and the journals of Lewis and Clark
  • Literacy for empire : geography, education, and the aesthetic of territoriality.