Book ID: CBB000070217

Uncommon ground: Toward reinventing nature (1995)

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Norton
Publication date: 1995


Publication Date: 1995
Edition Details: Cronon, William, editor.
Physical Details: 561 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Cronon, William: Introduction: In search of nature. Cronon, William: The trouble with wilderness; or, Getting back to the wrong nature. Spirn, Anne Whiston: Constructing nature: The legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted. Slater, Candace: Amazonia as Edenic narrative. Merchant, Carolyn: Reinventing Eden: Western culture as a recovery narrative. White, Richard: “Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?”: Work and nature. Price, Jennifer: Looking for nature at the mall: A field guide to the nature company. Davis, Susan G.: “Touch the magic”. Barbour, Michael G.: Ecological fragmentation in the fifties. Ellis, Jeffrey C.: On the search for a root cause: Essentialist tendencies in environmental discourse. Proctor, James D.: Whose nature? The contested moral terrain of ancient forests. Di Chiro, Giovanna: Nature as community: The convergence of environment and social justice. Haraway, Donna J.: Universal donors in a vampire culture: It's all in the family: Biological kinship categories in the 20th-century United States. Olwig, Kenneth R.: Reinventing common nature: Yosemite and Mount Rushmore: A meandering tale of a double nature. Hayles, N. Katherine: Simulated nature and natural simulations: Rethinking the relation between the beholder and the world. Harrison, Robert P.: Toward a philosophy of nature.


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