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Autore |
Cenkl Pavel <1971-> |
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Titolo |
This vast book of nature [[electronic resource] ] : writing the landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911 / / Pavel Cenkl ; foreword by Wayne Franklin |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Collana |
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American land and life series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Landscapes - White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) - Historiography |
Natural history - White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) - Historiography |
Landscapes in literature |
Tourism - White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) - History |
Electronic books. |
White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) Historiography |
White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) Environmental conditions Historiography |
White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) Description and travel |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-172) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The White Mountains from Northern Frontier to Tourist Resort; 1 Texts and Terrain: Jeremy Belknap and Eighteenth-CenturyLandscape Ideology; 2 Economic Topographies: Unsettling the History of Early Tourismin New Hampshire's White Mountains; 3 The Sublime and the Sumptuous: The Currency of Scenery andWhite Mountain Tourism; 4 Alone with Scribe and Staff: Rewriting the White Mountains,1870 - 1900; Epilogue: Reading and Teaching Region; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This Vast Book of Nature is a careful, engaging, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the ways in which the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire---and, by implication, other wild places---have been written into being by different visitors, residents, and developers from the post-Revolutionary era to the days of high tourism at the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawing on tourist brochures, travel accounts, |
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pictorial representations, fiction and poetry, local histories, journals, and newspapers, Pavel Cenkl gauges how Americans have arranged space for political and economic purpos |
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