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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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