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Savage Dreams : a Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West.
""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 later-in 1951-and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | ""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 later-in 1951-and 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 histor |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-403) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520957923 052095792X 1306577896 9781306577892 0520282280 9780520282285 |