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Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies
Thomas G. Andrews
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Description for Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies
Hardback. Thomas Andrews drills deep into the many pressures that have reshaped a small stretch of North America, from the ice age to the advent of the Anthropocene and controversies over climate change. He brings to the surface lessons about the critical relationships to land, climate, and species that only seemingly unimportant places on Earth can teach. Num Pages: 324 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HB; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Thomas Andrews drills deep into the many pressures that have reshaped a small stretch of North America, from the ice age to the advent of the Anthropocene and controversies over climate change. He brings to the surface lessons about the critical relationships to land, climate, and species that only seemingly unimportant places on Earth can teach.
Thomas Andrews drills deep into the many pressures that have reshaped a small stretch of North America, from the ice age to the advent of the Anthropocene and controversies over climate change. He brings to the surface lessons about the critical relationships to land, climate, and species that only seemingly unimportant places on Earth can teach.
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
663g
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674088573
SKU
V9780674088573
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Ref
99-19
About Thomas G. Andrews
Thomas G. Andrews is Professor of History at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Reviews for Coyote Valley: Deep History in the High Rockies
Andrews has both the broad vision and the penetrating focus that major historians need...Overall a compelling [book].
Mark Abley Times Literary Supplement (05/20/2016) Andrews covers much ground
eons of time, too
from the prehistoric era to the present to offer a 'deep history' of a small patch of ground in the Rockies...Those with environmental concerns and others with interests in Native history will derive much from Andrews' fine book.
P. D. Travis Choice (04/01/2016) In this smart and ambitious book, Thomas G. Andrews tries to reconcile large and small by focusing on the Kawuneeche Valley of Colorado (Coyote Valley, as translated from Arapaho), a part of Rocky Mountain National Park... The many successes and occasional shortcomings of Andrews's efforts underscore the challenges of mastering space and scale. More important, this book is a model for breaking down needless barriers between public history and academic history.
(12/01/2016) Those interested to learn how historians now write about the ever-changing dynamics among people, nature, and culture need look no further than this book. Coyote Valley defines the cutting edge of environmental history.
Pekka H m l inen, author of The Comanche Empire Andrews's Coyote Valley is a marvelous example of the intersection not only of agricultural and environmental history but also of public and academic history...Andrews also makes a strong case for a deep-history approach to landscape history.
Joseph E. Taylor III Agricultural History (05/01/2016) Andrews has followed up his Bancroft Prize-winning Killing for Coal with an exquisitely wrought portrait of an out-of-the-way place that must be central to our understanding of the American West's past, present, and future: the headwaters of the Colorado River in what today is Rocky Mountain National Park. Coyote Valley is brilliant and beautiful, a must-read for anyone interested in the complex history of the nation's iconic landscapes.
Ari Kelman, author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek In this gracefully written, insightful, deeply researched history of an under-studied part of North America, Andrews tells a story of the fracturing of an environmental order. The chronological scope and interdisciplinary breadth of the work are impressive. This is environmental history at its best.
Andrew Isenberg, author of Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life
Mark Abley Times Literary Supplement (05/20/2016) Andrews covers much ground
eons of time, too
from the prehistoric era to the present to offer a 'deep history' of a small patch of ground in the Rockies...Those with environmental concerns and others with interests in Native history will derive much from Andrews' fine book.
P. D. Travis Choice (04/01/2016) In this smart and ambitious book, Thomas G. Andrews tries to reconcile large and small by focusing on the Kawuneeche Valley of Colorado (Coyote Valley, as translated from Arapaho), a part of Rocky Mountain National Park... The many successes and occasional shortcomings of Andrews's efforts underscore the challenges of mastering space and scale. More important, this book is a model for breaking down needless barriers between public history and academic history.
(12/01/2016) Those interested to learn how historians now write about the ever-changing dynamics among people, nature, and culture need look no further than this book. Coyote Valley defines the cutting edge of environmental history.
Pekka H m l inen, author of The Comanche Empire Andrews's Coyote Valley is a marvelous example of the intersection not only of agricultural and environmental history but also of public and academic history...Andrews also makes a strong case for a deep-history approach to landscape history.
Joseph E. Taylor III Agricultural History (05/01/2016) Andrews has followed up his Bancroft Prize-winning Killing for Coal with an exquisitely wrought portrait of an out-of-the-way place that must be central to our understanding of the American West's past, present, and future: the headwaters of the Colorado River in what today is Rocky Mountain National Park. Coyote Valley is brilliant and beautiful, a must-read for anyone interested in the complex history of the nation's iconic landscapes.
Ari Kelman, author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek In this gracefully written, insightful, deeply researched history of an under-studied part of North America, Andrews tells a story of the fracturing of an environmental order. The chronological scope and interdisciplinary breadth of the work are impressive. This is environmental history at its best.
Andrew Isenberg, author of Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life