Reading Territory Jason C. Ong Georgetown

Georgetown

and summer residents

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

working the political grassroots

conquered and colonized large parts of the non-Western world for over five hundred years

Reading Territory Jason C. Ong GeorgetownThe 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