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Informationen zum Autor David Stradling. Foreword by William Cronon 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! the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. This book 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. 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
