Savage Dreams A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West
| Author/creator | Solnit, Rebecca Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oakland : University of California Press Ewing : California Princeton Fulfillment Services [Distributor] |
| Description | 440 p. 08.250 x 05.500 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Summary | Annotation "A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."Larry McMurtryIn 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century laterin 1951and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin.In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its implementation as politics. In a new preface, she considers the continuities and changes of these invisible wars in the context of our current climate change crisis, and reveals how the long arm of these histories continue to inspire her writing and hope. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780520282285 |
| ISBN | 0520282280 (Trade Paper) Forthcoming |
| Standard identifier# | 9780520282285 |
| Stock number | 00027125 |