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Moral Geography

Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier

By: Amy DeRogatis

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Hardcover | 17 March 2003 | Edition Number 1

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"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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Moral Geography provides a much better guidebook to the region and its religion, and DeRogatis never lets us get lost, taking us along a scholarly path that seems both familiar and fresh at the same time. -- Gregory Nobles Journal of American History Interesting and innovative... Most readers ofMoral Geography will appreciate DeRogatis's attempt to 'read' material sources in seeking to understand the landscape of the Western Reserve. -- Lydia Huffman Hoyle Regster of the Kentucky Historical Society ...the brief narrative here does little justice to the nuanced deconstruction of maps, letters, biography, and travel literature that comprises the heart of DeRogatis's work. From close readings of these texts she has skillfully teased out a language in her sources... -- William H. Bergmann, University of Cincinnati Ohio History Moral Geography does a great service by introducing those who felt the tension between new and old orders. -- Kathleen Flake Journal of Religion Amy DeRogatis' sketch of moral geography on the American frontier has opened up a rich and fertile vein of scholarship. -- David N. Livingstone Books & Culture Innovative new study of the religious settlement of Connecticut's "Western Reserve."... A model of interdisciplinary scholarship, and her new study will enjoy wide readership. -- Douglas L. Winiarski Religious Studies Review

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Geography Cartography Earliest Times to Present Day Early Modern History from 1450 to 1700 Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Regional Studies

Religion & Beliefs Christianity Christian Institutions & Organisations Christian Mission & Evangelism Aspects of Religion for Non-Christians Religious Institutions & Organisations Religion

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The Benevolent Design: Mapping the Landscape	p. 15
Mappers and Missionaries	p. 15
The Connecticut Land Company: Mapping	p. 21
"In regard to the Heathen on our borders": Erasing the Natives	p. 32
The Connecticut Missionary Society: Missionizing	p. 35
"Sprightly towns" and "numerous churches which gem the whole landscape": Spatial Nostalgia	p. 41
"The most benevolent designs": Missionary Publications	p. 47
Models of Piety: Protestant Missionaries on the Frontier	p. 61
"I find I can preach, if I can ride": Missionary Letters	p. 66
"Difficulties inseparable to a family": Age, Marital Status, and Missions	p. 74
"I have no prospect of being popular": Social Status and Missionary Labor	p. 77
"Book knowledge is not all": The Heart, Not the Head	p. 81
"Born and raised in the woods": Homegrown Missionaries	p. 84
The Moral Garden of the Western World: Bodies, Towns, and Families	p. 90
"Nurseries of piety": Body, Town, and Family	p. 93
"A considerable phalanx of infidelity": Religious Rivalry and the Body	p. 101
"Scattered promiscuously over the face of the country": Town Planning and Moral Order	p. 111
"One great step towards a state of barbarism": Family and Home Order	p. 120
Geography Made Easy: Geographies and Travel Literature	p. 127
Geography Made Easy: Mapping and Moralizing	p. 130
Domestic Travel Narratives	p. 135
Fairy-Tale Reports: Western Reserve Travel Literature	p. 142
A Correct View: New Connecticut as the Promised Land	p. 152
A Beacon in the Wilderness: Moral Inscriptions on the Landscape	p. 157
The Oberlin Colony and Institute	p. 159
Building Up Society: Missionary Institutions	p. 166
Ecclesiastical Outlaws	p. 174
Moral and Spatial Order	p. 178
Conclusion: Moral Geography	p. 181
Notes	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 217
Index	p. 235
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