LEADER 03344oam 22005174a 450 001 9910820828703321 005 20170918174533.0 010 $a1-940425-91-3 010 $a1-940425-92-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000514362 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001593172 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16290147 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001593172 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14875529 035 $a(PQKB)10878763 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4417165 035 $a(OCoLC)932124808 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46129 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000514362 100 $a20151120e20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGeorge Washington Written Upon the Land$b[electronic resource] $eNature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape /$fPhilip Levy 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aMorgantown, [West Virginia] :$cWest Virginia University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (294 pages) $cillustrations, map 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-940425-90-5 311 $a1-940425-89-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a"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. 330 $aGeorge 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. 607 $aFerry Farm (Stafford County, Va.)$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a973.4/1092 700 $aLevy$b Philip$f1963-$01653726 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820828703321 996 $aGeorge Washington Written Upon the Land$94005144 997 $aUNINA