Making Mountains - New York City and the Catskills

Informationen zum Autor David Stradling is associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati. His focus is the intersection of urban and environmental history. He is author of Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951 and editor of Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classical Texts. Klappentext New in Paperback--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. Zusammenfassung For over two hundred years! Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. This text shows transformation of Catskills landscape as a collaborative process! one in which local and urban hands! and ideas have come together to reshape mountains and communities therein! with economic! and cultural consequences. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Autori: David Stradling
• Editore: University Of Washington Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.11.2007
• EAN: 9780295987477
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98747-7
• Pagine: 336
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Making Mountains; Weyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksMaking Mountains
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Agricoltura, giardinaggio; silvicoltura, pesca, alimentazione