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Making Mountains – New York City and the Catskills de David Stradling

Making Mountains – New York City and the Catskills: Making Mountains

Autor David Stradling, William Cronon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 feb 2010
For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein. This collaboration has had environmental, economic, and cultural consequences.David Stradling is associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295990149
ISBN-10: 0295990147
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 20 illustrations, 3 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: MV – University of Washington Press
Seria Making Mountains

Recenzii

"A pivotal work in environmental history that makes connections between issues of urbanization, resource development, land use, cultural representation, and environmental consciousness in new and provocative ways." Marguerite S. Shaffer, Miami University"The main strength of this sophisticated book lies in Stradling's moving beyond stating the Catskills' importance in forming American ideals of the countryside and wilderness or describing its role in the early conservationist movement. His most sweeping conclusion holds that scholars' traditional 'imperial model,' emphasizing the dominant role of urban elites in transforming the environment, tells an incomplete story. In the Catskills, urban tourists, weekenders, and natives whose families named the landscapes together shaped - and shape - the region." The Journal of American History"Making Mountains [is] an engaging read [in] its focus on and exploration of the bridgeable chasm between the country and the city, the rural and the urban, the metropolis and the mountain chain, places of change and places of assumed stasis. . . Making Mountains will be insightful for all scholars working on the friction and contentious contact zones and conditions that emerge when rural and urban realities and their cultural producers and discourses are brought into play." Electronic Green Journal"Making Mountains is a meticulously researched and intellectually focused piece of scholarship, but - clearly written, engaging, and full of telling anecdote - it is also designed to reach a wide audience." New York History"For those of us who live [in the Catskills] as well as visitors, this book reminds us of the genuine advantages of the mountains and when we read the quotes from years past, we know that these qualities are still here. This is a good book to have on your shelf. . . . Making Mountains enriches the experience of the Catskills and also provides an interesting thesis on the history of the area." Towne Crier, Livingston Manor, NY"One can discern the entire American relationship with nature through the prism of the Catskills: colonialism, subsistence agriculture, industry, ethnic segregation, and, more recently, a species of post-modern placelessness." Karl Jacoby, Brown University"Making Mountains is the finest modern history yet written of the Catskills-a chain of mountains that looms far larger in the national consciousness than one might think possible given their-- limited extent and modest height. And yet, because of the Catskills' special relationship to New York City, they became in the early nineteenth century the principal vehicle for helping Americans understand the meaning of the romantic sublime, and so shaped all subsequent American thinking about nature. David Stradling's book should interest anyone seeking to understand how rural and urban Americans have worked together to reinvent and reinterpret our national landscape." William Cronon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Notă biografică

Cuprins

Foreword
Preface: The Haynes Family of Haynes Hollow
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Types of the Permanent and Unchanging
1) A Natural Resource
2) Envisioning Mountains
3) The Mountain Hotels
4) Making Wilderness
5) Mountain Water
6) Moving Mountains
7) A Suburb of New York
Epilogue: Whose Woods These Are
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index

Descriere

Shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process