- Title
Uncommon ground toward reinventing nature / William Cronon, editor.
- Other Title
American Progress (reproduction)
- Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©1995.
- Description
561 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
- Category
Books and Serials
- Subject
Environmentalism.
Environmental policy--United States.
- Other Author
Cronon, William, editor
Autry Museum of the American West. Collection reproduction
- Note
Includes collection reproduction from Autry Museum of the American West (page 148: 92.126.1)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-476) and index.
Introduction : in search of nature / William Cronon -- The trouble with wilderness; or, Getting back to the wrong nature / William Cronon -- Constructing nature : the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted / Anne Whiston Spirn -- Amazonia as Edenic narrative / Candace Slater -- Reinventing Eden : western culture as a recovery narrative / Carolyn Merchant -- ”Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?” : work and nature / Richard White -- Looking for nature at the mall : a field guide to the Nature Company / Jennifer Price -- ”Touch the magic” / Susan G. Davis -- Ecological fragmentation in the fifties / Michael G. Barbour -- On the search for a root cause : essentialist tendencies in environmental discourse / Jeffrey C. Ellis -- Whose nature? The contested moral terrain of ancient forests / James D. Proctor -- Nature as community : the convergence of environment and social justice / Giovanna Di Chiro -- Universal donors in a vampire culture : it’s all in the family : biological kinship categories in the twentieth-century United States / Donna J. Haraway -- Reinventing common nature : Yosemite and Mount Rushmore -- a meandering tale of a double nature / Kenneth R. Olwig -- Simulated nature and natural simulations : rethinking the relation between the beholder and the world / N. Katherine Hayles -- Toward a philosophy of nature / Robert P. Harrison
- Call Number
GE 195 .U53 1995