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Forest & garden : traces of wildness in a modernizing land, 1897-1949 / Melanie L. Simo.
Fine Arts Library SB470.53 .S56 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simo, Melanie Louise, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landscape architecture--United States--History.
- Landscape architecture.
- Landscape changes--United States--History.
- Landscape changes.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- History.
- United States.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--United States--History.
- Nature.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Forest and garden
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- In this sensitive, penetrating tour through a forgotten period in American landscape history, Simo examines writings and opinions from 1897 to 1949 that show the opposition between culture and nature. 17 illustrations.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Across the Continent
- 1. Desert: Land of Little Rain, Great Beauty 21
- 2. Prairie and Plains: Myth, Symbol, Cultural Independence 42
- 3. Forested Mountains: Sierra Nevada, Rockies, Appalachian Trail 65
- 4. San Francisco Bay Area: "Nature Controlled by Art" 90
- 5. Around New York and Boston: Traces of Wildness, Lost and Found 111
- Part 2 Over Time
- 6. Park Makers and Forest Managers: Crossing Professional Lines in the Early Years 135
- 7. Layers of Human Habitation and Wildness 157
- 8. Ecology along the Roadside, by the Water, and in the Garden 178
- 9. Spirit of the Landscape, Humanized and Wild 200
- 10. A Land Ethic for a Plundered Planet 222.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813921597
- OCLC:
- 50124416
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