Book ID: CBB000302219

The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (2002)

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Valencius, Conevery Bolton (Author)


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Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: viii + 388 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Links 19th-century American settlers' understanding of their health with that of their environment in an effort to discover how people understood the natural world.


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Review Faragher, John Mack (2004) Review of "The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bogue, Margaret Beattie
Bowcutt, Frederica
Crane, Jeff
Duffin, Andrew Philip
Frank, Jerry J.
Kroll, Gary
Journals
Environmental History
Technology and Culture
Publishers
Lexington Books
McGill-Queen's University Press
MIT Press
Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
The MIT Press
University of Massachusetts Press
Concepts
Ecology
Environmental history
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Natural resource management
Nature
Landscape changes
People
Osborn, Henry Fairfield
Vogt, William
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
21st century
Places
United States
Texas (U.S.)
Great Britain
Rocky Mountains (U.S.)
Colorado (U.S.)
New Mexico (U.S.)
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