Crimes against nature : squatters, poachers, thieves, and the hidden history of American conservation / Karl Jacoby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacoby, Karl, 1965-

Series:

ACLS Fellows’ publications.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National parks and reserves--Social aspects--United States.

National parks and reserves.

Nature conservation--Social aspects--United States.

Nature conservation.

National parks and reserves--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

1st paperback printing.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these ""crimes"" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Contents:

Introduction: The Hidden History of American Conservation

PART I. FOREST: THE ADIRONDACKS

1. The Re-creation of Nature

2. Public Property and Private Parks

3. Working-Class Wilderness

PART II. MOUNTAIN: YELLOWSTONE

4. Nature and Nation

5. Fort Yellowstone

6. Modes of Poaching and Production

PART III. DESERT: THE GRAND CANYON

7. The Havasupai Problem

8. Farewell Song

Epilogue: Landscapes of Memory and Myth

Chronology of American Conservation

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612759246

9781282759244

1282759248

9780520930308

0520930304

9781597345583

159734558X

OCLC:

191925351

Publisher Number:

2027/heb05691 hdl