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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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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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 974.2/203072 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-172) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, pictorial representations, fiction and poetry, local histories, journals, and newspapers, Pavel Cenkl gauges how Americans have arranged space for political and economic purpos |
| Titolo autorizzato: | This vast book of nature |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-714-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454113903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
American land and life series.