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The Historical Production of Space in Perry County, Ohio: National Discourses Materialized

Bottone, Ethan M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1460553363

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2016, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Geography (Arts and Sciences).
Beginning with the Land Ordinance of 1785, the American federal government passed a series of laws that regulated the sale of public land to private citizens. These legislations represented a discourse of revenue seeking and debt repayment, espoused by the federal government during this early period of American nation-building. In order to efficiently and rapidly create revenue, the federal government implemented the public land sale system to dispose of land within the public domain. Through the examination of land patents and field surveys of cultural landscapes, a case study of Perry County, Ohio, one of the earliest regions disposed of under this system, was utilized to determine the settlement processes that occurred during the Early American Republic. The results of this study show that the federal controls on size, shape, and locations of purchases created a characteristic settlement landscape represented by tangible landscape elements, like roads and property lines, which have persisted into the present-day landscape. As such, the federal government can be considered the “author” of past and present landscapes through the construction of discourses materialized.
Timothy Anderson (Advisor)
Geoffrey Buckley (Committee Member)
Harold Perkins (Committee Member)
242 p.
American History; Geography
discourse materialized; Perry County, Ohio; settlement landscape; public land survey system

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  • Bottone, E. M. (2016). The Historical Production of Space in Perry County, Ohio: National Discourses Materialized [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1460553363

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Bottone, Ethan. The Historical Production of Space in Perry County, Ohio: National Discourses Materialized. 2016. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1460553363.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Bottone, Ethan. "The Historical Production of Space in Perry County, Ohio: National Discourses Materialized." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1460553363

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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