Witnesses to a vanishing America : the nineteenth-century response /

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Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism" and "manifest destiny," pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only partly disguised the fact that building an empire meant destroying a wilderness. Through an astonishing range of media, they voiced their...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchell, Lee Clark, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1981]
Colección:Princeton legacy library
Temas:
Nature conservation > United States > History.
Conservation of natural resources > United States > History.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States.
Indians of North America > Public opinion.
Ethnology > United States > History.
Nature > Conservation > États-Unis > Histoire.
Ethnologie > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
NATURE > Animals > Wildlife.
Conservation of natural resources.
Ethnology.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Nature conservation.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover ; 1 From Landscape to Culture, Preservation to Critique.

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