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The Meaning of Land in Nineteenth-Century American Political Thought
The Meaning of Land in Nineteenth-Century American Political Thought
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152817
- ISBN
- 9798384012276
- DDC
- 320
- 저자명
- Stengl, Noah.
- 서명/저자
- The Meaning of Land in Nineteenth-Century American Political Thought
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 268 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Avramenko, Richard.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation explores an aspect of existence that is often taken for granted or dismissed as mundane: land. Its four substantive chapters trace the way different conceptualizations of land underwrote and articulated with two ideals in nineteenth-century American political thought: sovereignty (chapters 1 and 2) and freedom (chapters 3 and 4). The first chapter analyzes the treaty-making activity and official correspondence of one of Thomas Jefferson's frontier emissaries, a young William Henry Harrison. It shows how a specific logic of sovereignty, termed "benevolent dominion," structured settler-Indigenous relations on the colonial border and was predicated on a unique configuration of land as "terrain," or a landscape with rigidly hierarchal borders, a unidirectional temporality, and promoting specific, "fetishized" land uses. The second chapter takes up the matter of land and sovereignty from the perspective of one of the tribes Harrison dispossessed. Life of Black Hawk (1833) is an autobiography dictated by the Sauk warrior, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk, that lays out a logic of sovereignty as "interdependence" and a notion of land as the source of all biological and cultural life. According to Black Hawk, "land cannot be sold" because intratribal cooperation and intertribal reciprocity, not exclusive possession, is the appropriate mode of relating to land. The third chapter pivots from sovereignty to freedom and jumps forward in time to 1852: the year a homestead bill first gained real traction in Congress. Rebutting standard "negative liberty" defenses of private property, this chapter shows how homestead advocates in the House of Representatives believed a grant of empty, vast, and abundant land could liberate urban laborers from structural domination and the social resentments that undermined moral autonomy, as well as assuage a palpable male panic by reinforcing patriarchal families. The fourth chapter reexamines homesteading, land, and freedom through the children's novels of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Although the novels tend to reify patriarchal and settler-colonial ideologies, Wilder's prairie settings provide the literal space for her protagonist to experiment with "reflexive" freedoms: seeing and being differently on enveloping, peripheral, and "queer" landscapes. The concluding chapter briefly brings these nineteenth-century theories to bear on the land politics of the twenty-first century.
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 일반주제명
- American history
- 일반주제명
- Modern history
- 일반주제명
- American studies
- 키워드
- Freedom
- 키워드
- Land
- 키워드
- Sovereignty
- 키워드
- United States
- 기타저자
- The University of Wisconsin - Madison Political Science
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-02A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■500 ▼aSource: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2024.
■520 ▼aThis dissertation explores an aspect of existence that is often taken for granted or dismissed as mundane: land. Its four substantive chapters trace the way different conceptualizations of land underwrote and articulated with two ideals in nineteenth-century American political thought: sovereignty (chapters 1 and 2) and freedom (chapters 3 and 4). The first chapter analyzes the treaty-making activity and official correspondence of one of Thomas Jefferson's frontier emissaries, a young William Henry Harrison. It shows how a specific logic of sovereignty, termed "benevolent dominion," structured settler-Indigenous relations on the colonial border and was predicated on a unique configuration of land as "terrain," or a landscape with rigidly hierarchal borders, a unidirectional temporality, and promoting specific, "fetishized" land uses. The second chapter takes up the matter of land and sovereignty from the perspective of one of the tribes Harrison dispossessed. Life of Black Hawk (1833) is an autobiography dictated by the Sauk warrior, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk, that lays out a logic of sovereignty as "interdependence" and a notion of land as the source of all biological and cultural life. According to Black Hawk, "land cannot be sold" because intratribal cooperation and intertribal reciprocity, not exclusive possession, is the appropriate mode of relating to land. The third chapter pivots from sovereignty to freedom and jumps forward in time to 1852: the year a homestead bill first gained real traction in Congress. Rebutting standard "negative liberty" defenses of private property, this chapter shows how homestead advocates in the House of Representatives believed a grant of empty, vast, and abundant land could liberate urban laborers from structural domination and the social resentments that undermined moral autonomy, as well as assuage a palpable male panic by reinforcing patriarchal families. The fourth chapter reexamines homesteading, land, and freedom through the children's novels of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Although the novels tend to reify patriarchal and settler-colonial ideologies, Wilder's prairie settings provide the literal space for her protagonist to experiment with "reflexive" freedoms: seeing and being differently on enveloping, peripheral, and "queer" landscapes. The concluding chapter briefly brings these nineteenth-century theories to bear on the land politics of the twenty-first century.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0262.
■650 4▼aPolitical science
■650 4▼aAmerican history
■650 4▼aModern history
■650 4▼aAmerican studies
■653 ▼aFreedom
■653 ▼aLand
■653 ▼aSettler colonialism
■653 ▼aSovereignty
■653 ▼aUnited States
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■71020▼aThe University of Wisconsin - Madison▼bPolitical Science.
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■791 ▼aPh.D.
■792 ▼a2024
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17163979▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
