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by Conevery Bolton ValenciusPublication Details
Book1st edBasic Books2002Description
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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) RA792 .V354 2002 AVAILABLE
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