Slide Mountain - Or, the Folly of Owning Nature

Informationen zum Autor Theodore Steinberg ! Assistant Professor of History at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University! Newark! is author of Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England (1991). Klappentext "A beautifully written work. . . . A tremendously fresh assessment of not only the perils of owning nature, but an entire realm of public and private thoughts, writings, laws, and legislation having to do with nature, property, conservation, and culture."—William Deverell, author of Railroad Crossings Zusammenfassung Tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature. This book recounts the battle for three thousand acres of land the river carved from a Nebraska Indian reservation and deposited in Iowa. It illuminates what it means to live in a culture of property where everything must have an owner. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface! by Senator Dan McCorquodale Fast Fish in America: An Introduction 1. Blackbird's Ghost: Real Estate and Other Fantasies 2. Identity Crisis in Bayou Country 3. Notes from Underground: The Private Life of Water 4. Cloudbusting in Fulton County 5. Three-D Deeds: The Rise of Air Rights in New York 6. Paper Moon: A Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Theodore Steinberg
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.1996
• EAN: 9780520207097
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20709-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; USA, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, Property & real estate, Pollution & threats to the environment, United States of America, USA, Pollution and threats to the environment, Property and real estate