Health of the Country How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land

Conevery Bolton Valencius did her undergraduate work at Stanford University, and earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her doctoral thesis won the prestigious Allan Nevins prize in 1999, awarded by the Society of American Historians for the best-written dissertation in American history. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, where she livesValencius, Conevery Bolton is the author of 'Health of the Country How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land', published 2002 under ISBN 9780465089864 and ISBN 0465089860.