John Opie

Virtual America

Sleepwalking Through Paradise

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Produktbeschreibung

John Opie is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental History and Policy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the founding editor of the journal Environmental History and the author of Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States and Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land, available in a Bison Books edition. Opie currently lives on the Indiana Dunes of Lake Michigan and teaches at the University of Chicago.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780803232785
• ISBN-10: 0803232780
• Artikelnr.: 28519817

Autorenporträt

John Opie is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental History and Policy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the founding editor of the journal Environmental History and the author of Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States and Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land, available in a Bison Books edition. Opie currently lives on the Indiana Dunes of Lake Michigan and teaches at the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1.  Welcome to VirtuaLand: Old Dreamworlds and the Power of a New Modernity
2.  Antique America: Searching for Authenticity
3.  Human Kodaks in the Future Perfect: Virtual America Embodied in World's
Fairs
4.  Sleepwalking in America: A Brief History
5.  Finding Authenticity: Inhabiting Place in America
Bibliography