George Washington Written upon the Land : Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- "The Most Storied Ground in America": An Introduction -- 1. "Somewhere This Had Beginnings": Unspooling Washington's Childhood Biography -- 2. Completing the Circuit of Memory: Washington and His Parting Survey -- 3. The Subterranean Young Washington: Crafting a Material Narrative for the Childhood Years -- 4. Fruits of Morality and Fruits of the Market: Weems's Idyll at the Crossroads of War and Markets -- 5. "The Local Appellation Based on Tradition Only": Making History from Promotion at George Washington's Surveying Office -- 6. To Change the World: Young George and Ferry Farm in the Era of Human-Induced Climate Change -- Notes -- Index.

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