"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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