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Könyv Perilous Waters Anthony E. Carlson

Perilous Waters

Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920

Szerző: Anthony E. Carlson
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Kiadó: The University of North Carolina Press
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 14-21 napon belül
42 587 Ft
Wetlands—particularly swamps—have evoked contradictory responses from different groups in the United...

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Szerző
Anthony E. Carlson
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2026
oldal
288
EAN
9781469694795
Enbook ID
50038303
Kiadó
The University of North Carolina Press
Súly
666
Méretek
25 x 235 x 155

Teljes leírás

Wetlands—particularly swamps—have evoked contradictory responses from different groups in the United States from the early republic to the end of World War I. White, enslaved, and Indigenous peoples alternately envisioned swamps as future agricultural paradises, uninhabitable wastelands, portals to freedom, spaces to gather vital resources, eugenic sanctuaries, and future homes for settlers. This contested, evolving thinking shaped how Americans interacted with swamps, and Perilous Waters addresses how those interactions influenced their management. Anthony E. Carlson shows how settlers demonized swamps as one of the gravest environmental impediments to agricultural expansion and the establishment of secure and stable communities. In doing so, they enlisted the knowledge, resources, and authority of the state to organize institutions that enabled drainage and erased any vestiges of prior occupation and usage. By the mid-nineteenth century, drainage became a paramount public policy objective, inaugurating new social institutions and mobilizing state resources to assist settlers in fashioning dry, healthy, and domesticated landscapes. After 1900, all levels of government worked to implement cooperative social institutions and systemize environmental and technological knowledge to facilitate drainage and accelerate the transformation of the nation’s wet spaces into farms and crop fields.

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