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Chris J. Magoc - So Glorious a Landscape - 9780842026956 - V9780842026956
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So Glorious a Landscape

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Description for So Glorious a Landscape Hardback. Surveys the subject of American natural and environmental studies. Series: American Visions: Readings in American Culture. Num Pages: 301 pages, bibliographical references. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFC; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture surveys the vast and interdiscipli-nary subject of American natural and environmental studies. It examines the literary landscape that has inspired a local, regional, and national sense of place; explores the dynamic meaning and significance of nature across time, place, culture, and gender; and looks at the essence and history of environmental change. The first all-encompassing introductory survey of environ-mental history and cultural studies, this volume provides students and scholars with carefully chosen selections from major essayists, naturalists, preachers, geographers,novelists, scientists, and historians whose works have shaped the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
Series
American Visions: Readings in American Culture
Number of Pages
301
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780842026956
SKU
V9780842026956
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Reviews for So Glorious a Landscape
As our national conversation centers increasingly on the use and abuse of the natural environment, it becomes crucial that environmental history provide the ballast for these debates. So Glorious a Landscape combines a vast array of pungent culturalcommentary with keen historical insight. The voices Professor Magoc has arranged here are the wellspring of American environmentalism. There is something in this ... Read more

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