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Savage dreams : a journey into the landscape wars of the American West / / Rebecca Solnit



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Autore: Solnit Rebecca Visualizza persona
Titolo: Savage dreams : a journey into the landscape wars of the American West / / Rebecca Solnit Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, California ; ; Los Angeles, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014
©2014
Edizione: Twentieth anniversary edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (439 p.)
Disciplina: 917.8042
Soggetto topico: Landscapes - West (U.S.) - History
Soggetto geografico: Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
West (U.S.) Description and travel
Soggetto non controllato: american government
american history
american west
civic
cultural studies
environment
environmental thinking
experiments
governmental power
great basin
hidden wars
history of the west
indigenous peoples
invisible wars
landscape theory
national park
native americans
nevada testing site
nuclear bombs
nuclear testing program
politics
power structures
tragic
united states of america
us government
us history
war against the land
war
yosemite national park
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- PREFACE TO THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION -- Acknowledgments -- From Hell to Breakfast -- Like Moths to a Candle -- April Fool's Day -- Trees -- Lise Meitner's Walking Shoes -- Golden Hours and Iron County -- Ruby Valley and the Ranch -- The War -- Keeping Pace with the Tortoise -- The Rainbow -- Spectators -- Framing the View -- Vanishing (Remaining) -- Fire in the Garden -- The Name of the Snake -- Up the River of Mercy -- Savage's Grave -- Full Circle -- Afterword to the 1999 Edition -- Sources -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: "A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."-Larry McMurtryIn 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later-in 1951-and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin. In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its implementation as politics. In a new preface, she considers the continuities and changes of these invisible wars in the context of our current climate change crisis, and reveals how the long arm of these histories continue to inspire her writing and hope.
Titolo autorizzato: Savage dreams  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95792-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790948003321
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