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A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley
University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 Paper: 978-0-299-21394-7 | eISBN: 978-0-299-21393-0 | Cloth: 978-0-299-21390-9 Library of Congress Classification F587.K4H43 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 977.574
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
A Thousand Pieces of Paradise is an ecological history of property and a cultural history of rural ecosystems set in one of Wisconsin's most famous regions, the Kickapoo Valley. While examining the national war on soil erosion in the 1930s, a controversial real estate development scheme, Amish land settlement, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam project, and Native American efforts to assert longstanding land claims, Lynne Heasley traces the historical development of modern American property debates within ever-more diverse rural landscapes and cultures. Heasley argues that the way public discourse has framed environmental debates hides the full shape our system of property has taken in rural communities and landscapes. She shows how democratic and fluid visions of property-based on community relationships-have coexisted alongside individualistic visions of property rights. In this environmental biography of a landscape and its people lie powerful lessons for rural communities seeking to understand and reconcile competing values about land and their place in it. See other books on: Land tenure | Land use | Landscape | Landscapes | Property See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
University of Wisconsin Press, 2012
Paper: 978-0-299-21394-7
eISBN: 978-0-299-21393-0
Cloth: 978-0-299-21390-9
Paper: 978-0-299-21394-7
eISBN: 978-0-299-21393-0
Cloth: 978-0-299-21390-9
A Thousand Pieces of Paradise is an ecological history of property and a cultural history of rural ecosystems set in one of Wisconsin's most famous regions, the Kickapoo Valley. While examining the national war on soil erosion in the 1930s, a controversial real estate development scheme, Amish land settlement, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam project, and Native American efforts to assert longstanding land claims, Lynne Heasley traces the historical development of modern American property debates within ever-more diverse rural landscapes and cultures. Heasley argues that the way public discourse has framed environmental debates hides the full shape our system of property has taken in rural communities and landscapes. She shows how democratic and fluid visions of property-based on community relationships-have coexisted alongside individualistic visions of property rights. In this environmental biography of a landscape and its people lie powerful lessons for rural communities seeking to understand and reconcile competing values about land and their place in it.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
