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The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood ...

The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood ...

Conevery Valencius

Copyright © 2002 by Conevery Bolton Valencius Hardback published by Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books ... The health of the country: how American settlers understood themselves and their land / Conevery Bolton Valencius.
Medical History: Supplement

Medical History: Supplement

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Chapter 1 Histories of Medical Geography CONEVERY BOLTON VALENCIUS Like would-be claimants arguing over a family inheritance, different disciplines have created different genealogies of medical geography, even as they share an  ...
Catastrophes: A History and Theory of an Operative Concept

Catastrophes: A History and Theory of an Operative Concept

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As a new study by Conevery Bolton Valencius confirms, “storytelling” and “ knowledge making” went hand in hand in nineteenth-century seismology: a seismic reporter “told readers about territory new to them, and to their nation, and he helped ...
Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the ...

Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the ...

Neil M. Maher

3 (Fall 2003): 600–635; and Conevery Bolton Valencius, ''The Geography of Health and the Making of the American West: Arkansas and Missouri, 1800–1860 ,'' in Medical Geography in Historical Perspective, ed. Nicolaas Rupke (London: ...
The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret

The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret

Seth Shulman

97 The Health of the Country: Conevery Bolton Valencius, The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land (New York: Basic Books, 2002). The book won the George Perkins Marsh Prize for the best ...
The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes

The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes

Conevery Bolton Valencius

... Maggie Haller, David Jones, Jane Kamensky, David Konig, George Lankford, Deborah Levine, Jen Light, Jessica Martucci, Adrienne Naylor, David Pantalony, Seth Rockman, Charles Rosenberg, George Smith, Seth Stein, and Tish Tuttle.
Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868–1964

Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868–1964

Takashi Nishiyama

... Hessenbruch, Ben Marsden, David Pantalony, Peter Shulman, Seth Shulman, Conevery Valencius, Sara Wermiel, and Chen-Pang Yeang. My office neighbors —Karine, Dane, Chen-Pang, and Kristine—were a source of daily inspiration.
The Hasinais, Southern Caddoans as Seen by the Earliest ...

The Hasinais, Southern Caddoans as Seen by the Earliest ...

Herbert Eugene Bolton

Herbert Eugene Bolton Russell M. Magnaghi. Renowned as the founder of Spanish borderlands studies, Herbert Eugene Bolton was the first U.S. historian to build his research on Spanish archives and other forgotten archives in California, ...
Bolton and the Spanish Borderlands

Bolton and the Spanish Borderlands

Herbert Eugene Bolton

The seventeen essays in this book, edited by John Francis Bannon, illustrate the importance of his contributions to American historiography and provide a solid foundation for students of Borderlands history.
Literature 1975

Literature 1975

S. Böhme

Separate prints (O. B. Slee, P. Y. Lee, 12.083.111; B. J. Robinson, J. W. Brooks, P. D. Godfrey, R. D. Brown, 12.131.225; D. B. Melrose, 13.062,056; J. G. Bolton, A. J. Shimmins, J. V. Wall, 13.141.084; J. G. Bolton, P. W. Butler, 13.141.085; J. V.  ...
Dorothy Heathcote's Story: Biography of a Remarkable Drama ...

Dorothy Heathcote's Story: Biography of a Remarkable Drama ...

Gavin M. Bolton

Bolton describes Dorothy Heathcote's upbringing, her work as a mill girl, her theatre training, her unprecedented appointment to Durham and Newcastle Universities and her extraordinary rise to fame.
Letter to T. Collyns [sic] Simon, Esq., Author of The ...

Letter to T. Collyns [sic] Simon, Esq., Author of The ...

M. P. W. Bolton

M. P. W. Bolton, Thomas Collins Simon. of the Infinite as inconceivable, they use one of these senses; when they speak of it as credible, they use the other. So that according to you, the Infinite which they affirm to be inconceivable and ...
Bill Bolton, Flying Midshipman

Bill Bolton, Flying Midshipman

Noel Sainsbury

Lt. Noel Sainsbury, Jr. (1884-?) wrote a series of adventure novels for boys featuring Bill Bolton.
Inspirational Writing for Academic Publication

Inspirational Writing for Academic Publication

Gillie Bolton

Gillie Bolton introduces her three ‘key phases’ method (Write for Myself, Redraft for my Reader, Edit for Posterity) to make the writing process less daunting, and offers support and advice on how to develop your own writing voice to ...
Manganese Ores of Supergene Zone: Geochemistry of Formation

Manganese Ores of Supergene Zone: Geochemistry of Formation

I.M. Varentsov

Pracejus, B., Bolton, B.R. and Frakes, L.A. (1986) Electrochemical process in Mn- ores from Groote Eylandt (N.T. Australia): ... Pracejus, B., Varga, R., Madgwick, J, Frakes., L.A. and Bolton, B.R. (1990b) Effect of mineral composition on ...
The Entirepreneur: The All-In-One Entrepreneur-Leader-Manager

The Entirepreneur: The All-In-One Entrepreneur-Leader-Manager

Bill Bolton

In this groundbreaking book Bill Bolton and John Thompson present a completely new take on the conventional domains of entrepreneur, leader and manager.
Georgetown and Scott County

Georgetown and Scott County

Ann Bolton Bevins

Ann Bolton Bevins, Frederick A. Johnston, Lindsey Apple. Nine. HAVING. A. GOOD. TIME. Despite the absence of a large urban center, Scott County residents have rarely been at a loss for entertainment. Generations created their own good ...
The Eudoxologist; Or, An Ethicographical Survey of the ...

The Eudoxologist; Or, An Ethicographical Survey of the ...

Patrick O'Kelly

Thomas Blunden, H. Esq. Bolton, Cornelius, Esq. Bolton, Charles, Esq., Bowers, M. Esq. - Bruster, Wm. B. Esq. Burke, M. Esq. . Burke, Miss Blackmore, Richard, Esq. Briscoe, Edward, Esq. . Bowers, John, Esq. Brenan, John, Esq. Mt.-Neil Brien ...
Julian Among the Books: Julian of Norwich's Theological Library

Julian Among the Books: Julian of Norwich's Theological Library

Julia Bolton Holloway

Julian of Norwich's Theological Library Julia Bolton Holloway. Adam Easton only became ... Dorothy M. Owen, Historical Manuscripts Commission, Devon and Cornwall Record Society 19 (1974), 201, p. 106; 202, p. 107; ' A de E, monk of ...
That Troublesome Parish: St. Francis/St. Pius Church of ...

That Troublesome Parish: St. Francis/St. Pius Church of ...

Ann Bolton Bevins

St. Francis/St. Pius Church of White Sulphur, Kentucky, Mother Church of Diocese of Covington Ann Bolton Bevins, James R. O'Rourke. Two books which provided great insight into some of the great families of the parish in pioneers days were ...
Little Black Lies

Little Black Lies

Sharon Bolton

'A dark and haunting thriller.

who called from an unknown number?