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George Washington Written Upon the Land - Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape (Hardcover)
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George Washington Written Upon the Land - Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape (Hardcover)
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George Washington's childhood is famously the most elusive part of
his life story. For centuries biographers have struggled with a
lack of period documentation and an absence of late-in-life
reflection in trying to imagine Washington's formative years. In
George Washington Written upon the Land, Philip Levy explores this
most famous of American childhoods through its relationship to the
Virginia farm where much of it took place. Using approaches from
biography, archaeology, folklore, and studies of landscape and
material culture, Levy focuses on how different ideas about
Washington's childhood functioned-what sorts of lessons they sought
to teach and how different epochs and writers understood the man
and the past itself. In a suggestive and far-reaching final
chapter, Levy argues that Washington was present at the onset of
the Anthropocene-the geologic era when human activity began to have
a significant impact on world ecosystems. Interpreting Washington's
childhood farm through the lens of "big" history, he encourages
scholars to break down boundaries between science and social
science and between human and nonhuman.
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