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A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley (Wisconsin Land and Life)

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A Thousand Pieces of Paradise is an ecological history of property and a cultural history of rural ecosystems set in considered one of Wisconsin’s most famous regions, the Kickapoo Valley. Whilst examining the national war on soil erosion within 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 say longstanding land claims, Lynne Heasley traces the historical development of brand new American property debates within ever-more diverse rural landscapes and cultures. Heasley argues that the best 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-in line with community relationships-have coexisted alongside individualistic visions of property rights. On this environmental biography of a landscape and its people lie powerful lessons for rural communities in search of to take note and reconcile competing values about land and their place in it.
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