Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America

by Michele Currie Navakas

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812249569
• ISBN13: 9780812249569
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"