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The Health Of The Country How American Settlers Understood Themselves And Their Land
Conevery Bolton Valencius
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| #937547 in Books | 2002-07-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.28 x6.46 x9.42l, | File type: PDF | 416 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Land and Body in Antebellum Arkansas|By Taylor rose|For American settlers in the middle Mississippi River basin during the early nineteenth century, the boundaries between self and surroundings were porous. Nebulous notions of health and productivity seeped into the language, everyday actions, and thoughts of Arkansas homesteaders. In The Health of the Country, Conevery Bolton|From Library Journal|This book is based on the author's Harvard dissertation, which won the 1999 Allan Nevins Prize. (Valencius is currently on the history faculty of Washington University in Saint Louis.) While Jacqueline Corn's Environment and Health in Ninete
Many have written about the settling of early 19th century America, but until now no one has explored these settlers' self-consciousness about what they were doing, what "settling" and cultivating the land itself meant. In The Health of the Country, Conevery Valencius shows that assessments of the "sickliness" or "health" of land pervade settlers' letters, journals, newspapers, and literature--evidence of the common sense of another time, when land was believed to h...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Health Of The Country How American Settlers Understood Themselves And Their Land | Conevery Bolton Valencius.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
