Enchantment and Exploitation The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range. Revised and Expanded Edition. / William deBuys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeBuys, William, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--History.

Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.).

Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--Environmental conditions.

Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--Social conditions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

Rev. and expanded ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"First published in 1985, William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relationship between society and environment in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, a region unique in its rich combination of ecological and cultural diversity. Now, more than thirty years later, this revised and expanded edition provides a long-awaited assessment of the quality of the journey that New Mexican society has traveled in that time--and continues to travel. In a new final chapter deBuys examines ongoing transformations in the mountains' natural systems--including, most notably, developments related to wildfires--with significant implications for both the land and the people who depend on it. As the climate absorbs the effects of an industrial society, deBuys argues, we can no longer expect the environmental future to be a reiteration of the environmental past"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Place

Book I: Three Frontiers

1: Spirit Homes

2: Into the Mountains

3: Brothers on the Fault Line

4: Holding On

5: Lithic Parallels

6: Pandora's Scouts

7: Discord and Dollars

8: Discipline

9: The View from the Top of the Cliff

10: Gold in Them Hills

Book II: Collectivity

11: Inventory

12: Fractions of Justice

13: Manitos

14: Washed and Worn

15: Bully Boys and Bureaucrats

16: Land and Cattle

17: Wilderness

18: Trails

19: The Look of the Land

Appendix: Land Grants in North-Central New Mexico over 600 Acres

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826353436

0826353436

OCLC:

1227051925