Arcadian America - The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition

Informationen zum Autor Aaron Sachs is associate professor of history and American studies! Cornell University. Klappentext Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery! a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. In this title! the author argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten landscape tradition that has much to teach us in our current moment of environmental crisis. Zusammenfassung Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery! a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. In this title! the author argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten landscape tradition that has much to teach us in our current moment of environmental crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron Sachs, Sachs Aaron
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.05.2014
• EAN: 9780300205886
• ISBN: 978-0-300-20588-6
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: New Directions in Narrative History; New Directions in Narrative History; New Directions in Narrative Hi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; USA, Landscape art & architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Landscape architecture and design