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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2003]
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:Religion and American Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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