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Summary:

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.

Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Navakas, Michele Currie , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Liquid landscape: geography and settlement at the edge of early America [by Navakas, M.C.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Liquid landscape [by Navakas, M.C.] (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] — ISBN 0812294424; OCLC Number 1006251476)

Related Series:

Early American studies

Subjects:

Landscapes — Political aspects — Florida — History — 18th century

Landscapes — Political aspects — Florida — History — 19th century

Land settlement — Florida — History — 18th century

Land settlement — Florida — History — 19th century

Florida — Description and travel

1700-1899

Landscapes

Land settlement

Travel

Landscapes — Political aspects

Florida

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-222) and index.

Physical Description:

viii, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Call Numbers:

F314 .N38 2018

ISBNs:

9780812249569 (hardcover, alk. paper)
0812249569 (hardcover, alk. paper)

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40027506245

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017013303

OCLC Numbers:

981761541