This vast book of nature : writing the landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911 /
This Vast Book of Nature is a careful, engaging, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the ways in which the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire--and, by implication, other wild places--have been written into being by different visitors, residents, and developers from the post-Revolutionary...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2006.
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Colección: | American land and life series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The White Mountains from Northern Frontier to Tourist Resort; 1 Texts and Terrain: Jeremy Belknap and Eighteenth-CenturyLandscape Ideology; 2 Economic Topographies: Unsettling the History of Early Tourismin New Hampshire's White Mountains; 3 The Sublime and the Sumptuous: The Currency of Scenery and White Mountain Tourism; 4 Alone with Scribe and Staff: Rewriting the White Mountains,1870
- 1900; Epilogue: Reading and Teaching Region; Notes; Bibliography; Index