Reading Territory Jason C. Ong Topics include location

Topics include location

working the political grassroots

For his research

A wide range of authors trace the social construction and contestation of geographical ideas through the sites of their production and their relational geographies of engagement

and what did the locals think about 20th Century Fox shooting a big-budget film in their dooryards

Reading Territory Jason C. Ong Topics include locationThe formation of new states was an essential feature of US expansion throughout the long nineteenth century, and debates over statehood and states' rights were waged not only in legislative assemblies but also in newspapers, maps, land surveys, and other forms of print and visual culture. Assessing these texts and archives, Kathryn Walkiewicz theorizes the logics of federalism and states' rights in the production of US empire, revealing how they were