Savage Dreams : a Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West.

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""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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Solnit, Rebecca (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Temas:
Landscapes > West (U.S.) > History.
Nuclear weapons > Testing > Environmental aspects > Nevada.
Indians of North America > Wars > West (U.S.)
Armes nucléaires > Essais > Aspect de l'environnement > Nevada.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Indians of North America > Wars
Landscapes
Nuclear weapons > Testing > Environmental aspects
Travel
Umweltschaden
Indianerkriege
Indianerpolitik
Kernwaffentest
Landschaft
West (U.S.) > Description and travel.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
États-Unis (Ouest) > Descriptions et voyages.
California > Yosemite National Park
Nevada
West United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition; Acknowledgments; DUST, OR ERASING THE FUTURE: THE NEVADA TEST SITE; From Hell to Breakfast; Like Moths to a Candle; April Fool's Day; Trees; Lise Meitner's Walking Shoes; Golden Hours and Iron County; Ruby Valley and the Ranch; The War; Keeping Pace with the Tortoise; WATER, OR FORGETTING THE PAST: YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK; The Rainbow; Spectators; Framing the View; Vanishing (Remaining); Fire in the Garden; The Name of the Snake; Up the River of Mercy; Savage's Grave; Full Circle; Afterword; Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H.
  • IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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