03366oam 22005534a 450 991096866950332120251211162555.09781940425917194042591397819404259241940425921(CKB)3710000000514362(SSID)ssj0001593172(PQKBManifestationID)16290147(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001593172(PQKBWorkID)14875529(PQKB)10878763(MiAaPQ)EBC4417165(OCoLC)932124808(MdBmJHUP)muse46129(Perlego)4522130(EXLCZ)99371000000051436220151120e20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrGeorge Washington Written Upon the Land Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape /Philip LevyFirst edition.Morgantown, [West Virginia] :West Virginia University Press,2015.©20151 online resource (294 pages) illustrations, mapIncludes index.9781940425900 1940425905 9781940425894 1940425891 Includes bibliographical references and index."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.George Washington's childhood is famously the most elusive part of his life story. For centuries biographers have struggled with a lack of period documentation and an absence of late-in-life reflection in trying to imagine Washington's formative years. In George Washington Written upon the Land, Philip Levy explores this most famous of American childhoods through its relationship to the Virginia farm where much of it took place. Using approaches from biography, archaeology, folklore, and studies of landscape and material culture, Levy focuses on how different ideas about Washington's childhood functioned--what sorts of lessons they sought to teach and how different epochs and writers understood the man and the past itself. In a suggestive and far-reaching final chapter, Levy argues that Washington was present at the onset of the Anthropocene--the geologic era when human activity began to have a significant impact on world ecosystems. Interpreting Washington's childhood farm through the lens of "big" history, he encourages scholars to break down boundaries between science and social science and between human and nonhuman.973.4/1092Levy Philip1963-1803722MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910968669503321George Washington Written Upon the Land4351388UNINA