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American Geographics:
U.S. National Narratives and the Representation
of the Non-European World,
1830-1865
(Stanford University Press, 2001)
Introduction - Beyond Manifest
Destiny: American Studies, National Identity, and Other Worlds
Ch. 1: The
World as Pedagogical Spectacle: Antebellum Geography Textbooks
Ch. 2:
"Precepts Graven on Every Breast": Melville's Typee, Polynesia, and the Forms of
the Law
Ch. 3:
Desire, Transgression, and the Holy Land
Ch. 4: The
Archaeological Sublime of Tropical America: Ephraim G. Squier and John L.
Stephens
Ch. 5:
Outgrowing the Boundaries of North America: Martin R. Delany, Africa, and the
Question of African-American Agency
Conclusion - The World Archive
and the National Canon of Memory
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