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Liquid landscape : geography and settlement at the edge of early AmericaEntry/Object ID
Library.1444Description
viii, 235 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
Liquid landscape : geography and settlement at the edge of early America by Michele Currie Navakas.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-222) and index.
In Florida, land and water frequently change places with little warning, dissolving homes and communities along with the very concepts of boundaries themselves. While Florida's landscape of saturated swamps, shifting shorelines, coral reefs, and tiny keys initially impeded familiar strategies of early U.S. settlement, such as the establishment of fixed dwellings, sturdy fences, and cultivated fields, over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Americans learned to inhabit Florida's liquid landscape in unconventional but no less transformative ways. This book analyzes the history of Florida's incorporation alongside the development of new ideas of personhood, possession, and political identity within American letters. From early American novels, travel accounts, and geography textbooks, to settlers' guides, maps, natural histories, and land surveys, early American culture turned repeatedly to Florida's shifting lands and waters, as well as to its itinerant enclaves of Native Americans, Spaniards, pirates, and runaway slaves.
Contents: Introduction : porous foundations -- Liquid landscape : estuary, marsh, sink, spring, shore -- Island nation : shoal, isle, islet -- Wrecker empire : harbor, rock, reef, key, gulf -- Florida marronage : Everglades, swamp, savannah, hammock -- Florida roots : scrub-palmetto and orange -- Coda.
Includes information on William Bartram's travels to Florida, St. John's River, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Laurel Grove Plantation, "Palmetto Leaves", short story "Our Florida Plantation", William C. Bryant, Mandarin, Zora Neale Hurston, John James Audubon, Joshua Reed Giddings, Seminole Indians, African Americans, Mrs. Mary Godfrey, Elizabeth Emmons,Seminole Wars, Francis Robert Goulding, slavery.Collection
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Florida -- Description and travel., Land settlement -- Florida -- History -- 18th century., Land settlement -- Florida -- History -- 19th century., Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.Publication Details
Author
Navakas, Michele CurriePublisher
University of Pennsylvania PressPlace Published
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PhiladelphiaCall No.
F 314 .N38 2018ISBN
9780812249569