| Book Review | Environmental History, 8.3

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Book Review

The Health of the Country: How Americans Understood Themselves and Their Land. By Conevery Bolton Valencius. New York: Basic Books, 2002. viii + 388 pp. $30.00.

Settlers arriving in a new country often observed whether their surroundings were "healthful." American emigrants who wrote on the subject recognized a correspondence between qualities of climate, soil, and situation and specific conditions of body and mind. This relationship between the nature internal and external to settlers' bodies is the subject of The Health of the Country by Conevery Bolton Valencius. The author considers her subject through the lenses of nineteenth-century medicine, geography, folk wisdom, politics, and race. The narrative focuses on two settler communities—Missouri and Arkansas—during the first half of the nineteenth century.

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