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Surveying and the ecology of belonging in the nineteenth-century United States

Thompson, Carl W.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2021

By the early Nineteenth-Century United States, the myth of North America’s resource superabundance sat uneasily with the nation’s liberal doctrine of individual rights. Imagining a vast continent of endless resources available to all, Americans then cordoned them off as property accessible only by …

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