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by Conevery Bolton ValenciusPublication Details
Book1st edBasic Books2002Availability
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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)Subject
- Medical geography — Arkansas — History — 19th century
- Medical geography — Missouri — History — 19th century
- Environmental health — Arkansas — History — 19th century
- Environmental health — Missouri — History — 19th century
- Health attitudes — Arkansas — History — 19th century
- Health attitudes — Missouri — History — 19th century
Notes
- "The Health of the Country is the first book to show how settlers made sense of uncharted land. Their primary concern was to save themselves from the painful, fatal, disabling ailments that are as much a part of American history as cowboys and wagon trains." "Primary sources from this tumultuous period show settlers using science, intuition, observation and popular wisdom to evaluate whether a particular locale would sicken them."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Introduction: "Healthy Country"
- Ch. I. "New Country"
- Ch. II. Body
- Ch. III. Places
- Ch. IV. Airs
- Ch. V. Waters
- Ch. VI. Local Knowledge: Medical Geography and the Intellectual Hinterland
- Ch. VII. Cultivation
- Ch. VIII. Racial Anxiety
- Ch. IX. Conclusion
ISBN
- 0465089860
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