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A greene country towne : Philadelphia's ecology in the cultural imagination / Alan C. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe, eds.
- Format:
- Book
- 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
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
- System Details:
- data file
- 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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