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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacoby, Karl, author.

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 (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2014.

Language Note:

In 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:

Front matter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Preface

Introduction: The Hidden History of American Conservation

PART I. FOREST: THE ADIRONDACKS

PART II. MOUNTAIN: YELLOWSTONE

PART III. DESERT: THE GRAND CANYON

Epilogue: Landscapes of Memory and Myth

Afterword

Chronology of American Conservation

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

"With a New Afterword."

First paperback printing 2003"--T. p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 15, 2014).

ISBN:

9780520957930

0520957938

OCLC:

872647866