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A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape And Property in the Kickapoo Valley

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  • ISBN13:

    9780299213909

  • ISBN10:

    0299213900

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-12-06
  • Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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Summary

A Thousand Pieces of Paradiseis 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. Published in association with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Staunton, Virginia. www.americanplaces.org ;So much for cookie-cutter stereotypes of the rural Midwest! . . . Highly recommended. ;- Choice

Author Biography

Lynne Heasley is assistant professor of history and environmental studies at Western Michigan University.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 3(13)
Prologue: Weekend Drive, Summer 2002 16(5)
PART 1: Landscape Succession
Intended Consequences: Soil Conservation
21(26)
A Midwestern Ranch
47(14)
What the Real Estate Ads Don't Tell You
61(24)
PART 2: A Community on the Land
Outsiders
85(19)
An Amish Environment
104(25)
PART 3: Negotiating the Past and Future Landscape
A Dam for New Times
129(25)
Deer Unlimited
154(19)
(Re)Enter the Ho-Chunk
173(22)
Conclusion: Claims on Paradise 195(12)
Notes 207(40)
Bibliography 247(20)
Index 267

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