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A greene country towne : Philadelphia's ecology in the cultural imagination / Alan C. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe, eds.

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Book
Contributor:
Braddock, Alan C., 1961- editor.
Igoe, Laura Turner, 1982- editor.
JSTOR (Online Service)
Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Urban ecology (Sociology)--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
Urban ecology (Sociology).
Ecocriticism--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
Ecocriticism.
Ecology in art.
Ecology in literature.
History.
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
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Place of Publication:
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
System Details:
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Contents:
Introduction : imagining urban ecology / Alan C. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe
Ink and paper, clamshells and leather : power, environmental perception, and materiality in the Lenape-European encounter at Philadelphia / Michael Dean Mackintosh
"Processes of nature and art" : the ecology of Charles Willson Peale's Smoke-eaters and stoves / Laura Turner Igoe
Mapping the Quaker City's queer ecology / Mary I. Unger
Visualizing urban nature in Fairmount Park : economic diversity, history, and photography in nineteenth-century Philadelphia / Nate Gabriel
Netted together : Eadweard Muybridge's Animal locomotion at the dawn of comparative biology / John Ott
Expansive exhibitions : agriculture and environment in Walt Whitman's Camden-Philadelphia region / Maria Farland
"Our yard looks something like a zoological garden" : Thomas Eakins, Philadelphia, and domestic animality / Alan C. Braddock
"A thorough study of causes" : W.E.B. Du Bois, the Philadelphia Negro, and progressive era materiality / Scott Hicks
Exhibiting Philadelphia's vital center : negotiating environmental and civic reform in a popular postwar planning vision / Amy E. Menzer
"Entertainment for all the senses" : Stephen Starr's experience dining and the revitalization of postindustrial Philadelphia / Stephen Nepa
"The water flows beneath it still ..." : remembering and re-imagining Philadelphia's old Dock Creek / Sue Ann Prince
Remapping Philadelphia's post-industrial terrain : a network in flux / Andrea Hansen.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
Other Format:
Print version: Greene country towne.
ISBN:
9780271078946
0271078944
Publisher Number:
99986121523
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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