A
Thousand Pieces of Paradise
Landscape and Property
in the Kickapoo Valley
Lynne Heasley
Wisconsin Land and Life
Arnold Alanen, Series Editor
“A pioneering study that anyone interested in rural America and contemporary debates about property rights and environmental protection will want to read.”
—William Cronon, author of Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
A Thousand Pieces of Paradise is an ecological history of property and a cultural history of rural ecosystems set in one of the Midwest’s most historically significant regions, the Kickapoo River Valley. Whether examining the national war on soil erosion, Amish migration, a Corps of Engineers dam project, or Native American land claims, Lynne Heasley traces the history of modern American property debates. Her book holds powerful lessons for rural communities seeking to reconcile competing values about land and their place in it.
“This penetrating analysis of the
complex forces that shape the landscape is a welcome relief form
the narrow, rancorous debate between private property rights
and outside government interference.” —Brian Donahue,
author of The Great Meadow and Reclaiming the Commons:
Community Farms and Forests in a New England Town.
“Although this is a superb study of how the land itself is changing, it is even better as a series of interwoven human stories.” —Richard Francaviglia, American Historical Review
 Lynne Heasley is assistant professor of history and environmental studies at Western Michigan University.
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Wisconsin Land and Life
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FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION
April 2012
LC: 2005011171 F
248 pp. 6 x 9
12 maps and graphs
Published in association with the Center for American Places |
