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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 ...
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 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.

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