Perilous Waters: Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920 - Couverture souple

Carlson, Anthony E.

 
9781469694801: Perilous Waters: Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920
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ISBN 10 : 1469694808 ISBN 13 : 9781469694801
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2026

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Anthony E. Carlson is professor of history at the School of Advanced Military Studies, US Army Command and General Staff College.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469694808
ISBN 13 
9781469694801
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
282
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9781469694795: Perilous Waters: Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920

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ISBN 10 :  1469694794 ISBN 13 :  9781469694795
Editeur : The University of North Carolina..., 2026
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