Title The health of the country : how American settlers understood themselves and their land / by Conevery Bolton Valenčius

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Basic Books, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 388 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Series ACLS Humanities E-Book Contents Contents -- Introduction: “Healthy Countryâ€? -- “Is it thriving & healthy?â€? -- Sources -- Making American Territory -- I. “New Countryâ€? -- “Wildâ€? Land and “Newâ€? -- Acclimation -- The Literature of Settlement -- “Moversâ€? and “Improversâ€? -- Early Arkansas and Missouri -- Native Peoples -- Emigration Stories, Black and White -- II. Body -- Medicine and the Demands of Health -- Force and Flow -- Blood -- Intake and Outgo -- “Risingsâ€? and Release -- Derangement and Proper Management -- Change -- Chills and Fevers III. Places“Placeâ€? -- Telling the “Health of the Countryâ€? -- Indoors and Out -- Climate and Constitution -- Movement -- IV. Airs -- Reading the Air -- Miasma -- Smell -- Counteraction -- Disgust -- Expertise and Common Knowledge -- Change and the Perils of Human Action -- Blurred Boundaries -- V. Waters -- Conduit -- Blessing -- Threat -- Flood -- Swamp -- Sloughs of the Spirit -- Wondrous Waters: Healing Springs -- VI. Local Knowledge: Medical Geography and the Intellectual Hinterland €œOn the Medical Topography of Saint Charles County, Mo.â€?Science of the Local -- The Politics of Local Knowledge -- Professional Anxieties of the Periphery -- Regional Boosterism and Southern Medicine -- The Uses of History -- Models for Hinterland Practice -- VII. Cultivation -- Agriculture as Material and Moral Imperative -- Farm Work -- Cultivation and Sense of Self -- Fertility and Generation -- Changes Wrought by Cultivation -- Crisis -- VIII. Racial Anxiety -- Peoples and Places -- Environmental Belonging -- Vulnerability of the Racial Self Blurred BoundariesProper Place: Free Black Identity -- Mixedness and the Problem of Color -- The Failure of Order -- IX. Conclusion -- Afterword -- Archival Information and Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Permissions -- Index Summary "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."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-372) and index Notes English Print version record 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 Health attitudes. Climatology. Medicine -- History -- 18th century. Attitude to Health Environmental Health -- history Climate Geography History, 18th Century History, 19th Century climate. Medicine Climatology Environmental health Health attitudes Medical geography Geomedizin Gesundheitsvorsorge Siedler Medical geography -- Arkansas -- History. Medical geography -- Missouri -- History. Environmental health -- Arkansas -- History. Environmental health -- Missouri -- History. Health attitudes -- Arkansas -- History. Health attitudes -- Missouri -- History. Health attitudes -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Frontier and pioneer life -- United States. SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 Subject Arkansas Missouri Arkansas Staat Missouri. Missouri Staat Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2002004400 ISBN 0465089860 9780465089864 0465024238 9780465024230

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