| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Conevery Bolton ValenÎius. The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. New York: Basic Books. 2002. Pp. viii, 388. $20.00.

Conevery Bolton ValenÎius's prize-winning book represents a bold and fresh perspective on a time-honored, even hoary theme in U.S. historiography: the settlement of the nineteenth-century frontier. She melds insights from the history of medicine (which is the field of her graduate training), environmental history, and postmodern critical analyses of the body in order to recapture ordinary Americans' attitudes toward the western landscape, and, by extension, raise issues that are much more broad ranging and profound. Indeed, as ValenÎius argues, early settlers in Missouri and Arkansas drew few of the distinctions between what she terms the "exterior world" and the individual body that we assume so implicitly and completely today. In their minds, the well-being of nature, the body, and the nation were interconnected and subject to the same principles and processes.

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