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portada Perilous Waters. Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.5x15.5x2.5 cm
ISBN13
9781469694795

Perilous Waters. Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920

Anthony E. Carlson (Author) · The University of North Carolina Press · Hardcover

Perilous Waters. Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920 - Anthony E. Carlson

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Synopsis "Perilous Waters. Settlers, Swamps, and the State, 1775–1920"

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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