Savage Dreams :: a Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West.

""A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book.""--Larry McMurtryIn 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the Indigenous inhabitants. A century later-in 1951-and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setti...

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1. Verfasser: Solnit, Rebecca (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung:""A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book.""--Larry McMurtryIn 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the Indigenous inhabitants. A century later-in 1951-and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin. In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking histor
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Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-403) and index.
ISBN:9780520957923
052095792X
1306577896
9781306577892
0520282280
9780520282285

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