Moral Geography : : Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier / / Amy DeRogatis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: DeRogatis, Amy,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and American Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. The Benevolent Design --; Chapter 2. Models of Piety --; Chapter 3. The Moral Garden of the Western World --; Chapter 4. Geography Made Easy --; Chapter 5. A Beacon in the Wilderness --; Conclusion: Moral Geography --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231508599; 9783110442472
• DOI: 10.7312/dero12788
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Amy DeRogatis.

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.