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Ground Plans: Conceptualizing Ecology in the Antebellum United States

Feeley, Lynne Marie (2015)

"The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions," writes Thoreau: "Let us spend our lives in conceiving then." This dissertation depicts how Thoreau's fellow antebellum antislavery writers discerned the ...