David E. Nye

Conflicted American Landscapes (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

How conflicting ideas of nature threaten to fracture America's identity. Amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties: American invest much of their national identity in sites of natural beauty. And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity, and politics. Creationists believe that the Biblical flood carved American landscapes less than 10,000 years ago; environmentalists protest pipelines; Western states argue that the federal government's land policies throttle free enterprise; Native Americans demand protection for sacred sites. In this book, David Nye looks at Americans' irreconcilably conflicting ideas about nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262362146
• Artikelnr.: 59925199

Autorenporträt

David E. Nye is Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute and the History of Science and Technology program at the University of Minnesota and Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of Southern Denmark. His other books published by the MIT Press include American Technological Sublime and American Illuminations. He was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 2005 and was knighted by the Queen of Denmark in 2013.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. The Problem
2. The Once Dominant American Discourse on Nature
3. Detroit's River Rouge: The Limits of Utilitarianism
4. Natural Bridges: Conflicts of Meaning
5. Discovering the Colorado River: Beyond Use Value
6. Grand Canyon, 1870-1940: Sublime Geology
7. Skyscraper and Skyline: Utilitarian Sublime
8. Nuclear Anti-Landscapes
9. Grand Canyon since 1945: Ephemeral Anthropocene
10. Conflicted Landscapes
11. Pragmatic Solutions
Notes
Bibliography
Index