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050 00 RA792|b.V354 2004 
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090    RA792 .V354 2004 
100 1  Valenčius, Conevery Bolton,|d1969-|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n99802946 
245 14 The health of the country :|bhow American settlers 
       understood themselves and their land /|cby Conevery Bolton
       Valenčius. 
250    1st ed. 
264  1 New York :|bBasic Books,|c[2004] 
264  4 |c©2004 
300    viii, 388 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-372) and 
       index. 
505 0  "Healthy country". "Is it thriving & healthy?" -- Sources 
       -- Making American territory -- "New country". "Wild" land
       and "new" -- Acclimation --Literature of settlement -- 
       "Movers" and "improvers" -- Early Arkansas and Missouri --
       Native peoples -- Emigration stories, Black andwhite -- 
       Body. Medicine and the demands of health -- Force and flow
       -- Blood -- Intake and outgo -- "Risings" and release -- 
       Derangement and proper management -- Change -- Chills and 
       fevers -- Places. "Place " -- Telling the "Health of the 
       country" -- Indoors and out -- Climate and constitution --
       Movement -- Airs. Reading the air -- Miasma -- Smell -- 
       Counteraction -- Disgust -- Expertise and common knowledge
       -- Change and the perils of human action -- Blurred 
       boundaries -- Waters. Conduit -- Blessing -- Threat -- 
       Flood -- Swamp -- Sloughs of the spirit -- Wondrous waters
       : healing springs -- Local knowledge : medical geography 
       and the intellectual hinterland. "On the medical 
       topography of Saint Charles County, Mo. " -- Science of 
       the local -- Politics of local knowledge -- Professional 
       anxieties of the periphery -- Regional boosterism and 
       southern medicine -- Uses of history -- Models for 
       hinterland practice -- Cultivation. Agriculture as 
       material and moral imperative -- Farm work -- Cultivation 
       and sense of self -- Fertility and generation -- Changes 
       wrought by cultivation -- Crisis -- Racial anxiety. 
       Peoples and places -- Environmental belonging -- 
       Vulnerability of the racial self -- Blurred boundaries -- 
       Proper place : free Black identity -- Mixedness and the 
       problem of color -- Failure of order. 
648  7 19th century|2fast 
650  0 Medical geography|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects
       /sh85082940|zArkansas|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n79034503-781|xHistory|y19th century.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167 
650  0 Medical geography|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects
       /sh85082940|zMissouri|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n79029210-781|xHistory|y19th century.|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167 
650  0 Environmental health|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85044173|zArkansas|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n79034503-781|xHistory|y19th century.
       |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167 
650  0 Environmental health|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85044173|zMissouri|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/names/n79029210-781|xHistory|y19th century.
       |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006167 
650  0 Health attitudes|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85059529|zArkansas|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
       /n79034503-781|xHistory|y19th century.|0https://id.loc.gov
       /authorities/subjects/sh2002006167 
650  0 Health attitudes|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85059529|zMissouri|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
       /n79029210-781|xHistory|y19th century.|0https://id.loc.gov
       /authorities/subjects/sh2002006167 
650  7 Medical geography.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1014152 
650  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 
650  7 Environmental health.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       912999 
650  7 Health attitudes.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       952808 
651  7 Arkansas.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204809 
651  7 Missouri.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204724 
856 41 |3Table of contents|uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy036/
       2002004400.html 
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