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Liquid landscape : geography and settlement at the edge of early America / Michele Currie Navakas.
LIBRA F314 .N38 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Navakas, Michele Currie, author.
- Series:
- Early American studies
- Early American Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscapes--Political aspects--Florida--History--18th century.
- Landscapes.
- Landscapes--Political aspects--Florida--History--19th century.
- Land settlement--Florida--History--18th century.
- Land settlement.
- Land settlement--Florida--History--19th century.
- History.
- Landscapes--Political aspects.
- Florida--Description and travel.
- Florida.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 235 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Introduction. Porous Foundations 1
- Chapter 1 Liquid Landscape: Estuary, Marsh, Sink, Spring, Shore 16
- Uncultivable Outpost 20
- William Gerard De Brahm on the Florida Shore 26
- William Bartram's Mobile Roots 34
- Chapter 2 Island Nation: Shoal, Isle, Islet 40
- The Origin and Endurance of Islands 44
- American Archipelago 52
- Mapping "The Florida Pirate" 59
- Chapter 3 Wrecker Empire: Harbor, Rock, Reef, Key, Gulf 66
- Reading the Reef: James Fenimore Cooper's Florida 68
- Gibraltar of the Gulf 73
- Reef Passages to Empire 82
- Chapter 4 Florida Marronage: Everglades, Swamp, Savannah, Hammock 91
- Joshua Reed Giddings's Maroon History of Florida 95
- Swamp Salvage: Mary Godfrey and Elizabeth Emmons in the Everglades 104
- Florida Maroon(er)s 115
- Chapter 5 Florida Roots: Scrub-Palmetto and Orange 125
- Serenoa repens 128
- Harriet Beecher Stowe at Home in Mandarin 134
- Floridian Domesticity 142.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812249569
- 0812249569
- OCLC:
- 981761541
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