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Big Sur : the making of a prized California landscape /
"Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid twentieth century. A remote, inaccessible, and undeveloped pastoral landscape until 1937, Big Sur quickly became a cultural symbol of California and the West, as well as a home to the ultra-wealthy. This transformation was due...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Jeffers' Country
- Nature's highway
- Big Sur: utopia, U.S.A.?
- Open-space at continent's end
- The influence of the counter-culture, community, and State
- The "battle" for Big Sur, or debating the national environmental ethic
- Defining the value of California's coastline
- Epilogue: millionaires and beaches: the socio-political economics of California coastal preservation in the twenty-first century.