The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land

Many have written about the settling of early 19th century America, but until now no one has...
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Author: Conevery Bolton Valencius
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land by Valencius, Conevery Bolton

The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land

€29,66

The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land

€29,66
Author: Conevery Bolton Valencius
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 have intrinsic health characteristics and the human body was understood to be linked in intimate and intricate ways with similar balances in the surrounding world. Valencius focuses her research on the Arkansas and Missouri territories from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War, capturing the excitement, romanticism, confusion, and anxiety of the frontier experience and revealing how these emotions were bound up with settlers' unique relationships with their land. This is a complex and rewarding book, a beautifully written, fresh account of the gritty details of American expansion, animated by the voices of the settlers themselves.

Author: Conevery Bolton Valencius
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 07/16/2004
Pages: 388
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.38w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780465089871
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Conevery Bolton Valencius received her Ph.D. from Harvard. In 2000 she won the prestigious Allan Nevins Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians for best-written dissertation in American history. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where she is an assistant professor at Washington University.

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