The Western Paradox : A Conservation Reader / / Bernard DeVoto; Patricia Nelson Limerick, Douglas Brinkley

• Autore: DeVoto Bernard
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (583 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.7/2/0978
• Soggetto topico: Conservation of natural resources - West (U.S.); Public lands - West (U.S.)
• Soggetto geografico: West (U.S.)
• Persona (resp. second.): BrinkleyDouglas; LimerickPatricia Nelson
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The West: A Plundered Province -- The Anxious West -- The West Against Itself -- Sacred Cows and Public Lands -- Statesmen on the Lam -- Two-Gun Desmond Is Back -- Billion Dollar Jackpot -- The Sturdy Corporate Homesteader -- Heading for the Last Roundup -- Conservation: Down and on the Way Out -- Chapter 1. To the Traveler's Eye -- Chapter 2. Damnedest Country Under the Sun -- Chapter 3. Emptiness Can Affect the ary266 -- Chapter 4. Unregarded Inheritance from the Frontier -- Chapter 5. The Eighth City of Cibola -- Chapter 6. A Certain Mentality -- Chapter 7. Nemesis -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto's crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper."-Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, "a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought." A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course of Empire. He also wrote a column for Harper's Magazine, in which he fulminated about his many concerns, particularly the exploitation and destruction of the American West. This volume brings together ten of DeVoto's acerbic and still timely essays on Western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, Western Paradox, which has never before been published. The book also includes a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who was a student of DeVoto's at Harvard University, and a substantial introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Limerick, both of which shed light on DeVoto's work and legacy.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Western Paradox
• ISBN: 9786611722739; 1-281-72273-1; 0-300-13386-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777774203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Yale Western Americana series (Unnumbered)