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Slide Mountain: Or, The Folly of Owning Nature
Theodore Steinberg
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Description for Slide Mountain: Or, The Folly of Owning Nature
Paperback. Tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature. This book recounts the battle for three thousand acres of land the river carved from a Nebraska Indian reservation and deposited in Iowa. It illuminates what it means to live in a culture of property where everything must have an owner. Num Pages: 224 pages, 5 b&w photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KFFR; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 45.
The drive to own the natural world in twentieth-century America seems virtually limitless. Signs of this national penchant for possessing nature are everywhere - from suburban picket fences to elaborate schemes to own underground water, clouds, even the ocean floor. Yet, as Theodore Steinberg demonstrates in this compelling, witty look at Americans' attempts to master the environment, nature continually turns these efforts into folly. In a rich, narrative style recalling the work of John McPhee, Steinberg tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature. Beginning along the Missouri River, ... Read more
The drive to own the natural world in twentieth-century America seems virtually limitless. Signs of this national penchant for possessing nature are everywhere - from suburban picket fences to elaborate schemes to own underground water, clouds, even the ocean floor. Yet, as Theodore Steinberg demonstrates in this compelling, witty look at Americans' attempts to master the environment, nature continually turns these efforts into folly. In a rich, narrative style recalling the work of John McPhee, Steinberg tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature. Beginning along the Missouri River, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520207097
SKU
V9780520207097
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About Theodore Steinberg
Theodore Steinberg, Assistant Professor of History at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark, is author of Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England (1991).
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