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POPULAR GEOGRAPHY WRITING IN AMERICA, 1783–1888
… Stowe, Albert Richardson, Clarence King, and John Wesley Powell created a popular discursive sense of equivalency between the physical landscape of a North American continent and the United States as a nationstate.</p>
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Surveying and the ecology of belonging in the nineteenth-century United States
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 …