By Amy DeRogatis
ISBN-10: 023112788X
ISBN-13: 9780231127882
ISBN-10: 0231127898
ISBN-13: 9780231127899
Ethical Geography strains the improvement of an ethical foundation for American expansionism, as Protestant missionaries, utilizing biblical language and metaphors, imaginatively conjoined the cultivation of souls with the cultivation of land and made area sacred. whereas the political implications of the mapping of yankee growth were a lot studied, this is often the 1st significant research of the shut and intricate courting among mapping and missionizing at the American frontier. ethical Geography presents a clean method of knowing nineteenth-century Protestant domestic missions in Ohio's Western Reserve. by using maps, letters, spiritual tracts, go back and forth narratives, and geographical texts, Amy DeRogatis recovers the struggles of settlers, land surveyors, missionaries, and geographers as they sought to reconcile their hopes and expectancies for a Promised Land with the realities of lifestyles at the early American frontier.
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Despite these disastrous conditions, however, he notes that towns always flourish when they are graced with the presence of educated divines. Similarly, those that Mather labels as “decline towns” could be charted by the absence of such illustrious men. ”15 The statistics about New England settlements and inhabitants reflect the usual factors such as weather and conflict with Native tribes. But Mather asserts that it is the strong clerical presence, rather than natural resources or hostile relations with Native Americans, that made the difference between growth or decline in a township.
Mather inextricably tied New England sacred history to the claiming and marking of landscape. Writing during the politically volatile Figure . ” This engraving was printed in Cotton Mather’s Magnalia Christi Americana (), illustrating the spatial character of Mather’s sacred history of New England. Note that on this map meetinghouses signify New England townships. Courtesy of the Newberry Library, Chicago. The Benevolent Design s, he made a choice to reinforce the centrality of the Plymouth Colony geographically and rhetorically, thus reeling in his readers’ desires to re-create a lost time centered around a Puritan community, and he cast forward the hopes for renewing that early communal state.
In a simultaneously cartographic and rhetorical move, Mather anachronistically separates and highlights Plymouth Colony on the map and in the narrative, even though by the time of its printing, Plymouth had been subsumed by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This visual and narrative link to Puritanism—albeit outdated—inscribes the small, defunct colony’s central position on the expanding colonial map. But more important for Mather was that the success of townships depended primarily on an active clerical presence.
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