TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cronon,  William Ed.
TI  - Uncommon ground : rethinking the human place in nature
SN  - 9780393315118
U1  - 363.7 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company 
N1  - List of Illustrations							 9
The Albums							             11
Acknowledgments						            13
Contributors 							           15
Foreword to the Paperback Edition				          19

BEGINNINGS
Introduction: In Search of Nature 					          23
 William Cronon

PARADISE   LOST   AND   FOUND
The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature          69
William Cronon 
Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted 	         91
Anne Whiston Spirn
 Amazonia as Edenic Narrative					       114
Candace Slater Reinventing Eden: Western Culture as a Recovery Narrative 132
Carolyn Merchant
AT    WORK    AND    PLAY
"Are You an Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living?":
Work and Nature 						       171
Richard White
Looking for Nature at the Mall: A Field Guide to the Nature Company   186
Jennifer Price
 "Touch the Magic" 						      204
Susan G. Davis

CONTESTED    TERRAINS
Ecological Fragmentation in the Fifties				     233
Michael G. Barbour
On the Search for a Root Cause: Essentialist Tendencies in
 Environmental Discourse 					     256
Jeffrey C. Ellis
 Whose Nature? The Contested Moral Terrain of Ancient Forests          269
James D. Proctor
Nature as Community: The Convergence of Environment and 
Social Justice 							   298
Giovanna Di Chiro
Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture: It's All in the Family:
 Biological Kinship Categories in the Twentieth-Century United         321
Donna J. Haraway

COMMON    PLACES
Reinventing Common Nature: Yosemite and Mount Rushmore—
A Meandering Tale of a Double Nature				 379
Kenneth R. Olwig
Simulated Nature and Natural Simulations: Rethinking the Relation 
between the Beholder and the World 				409
N. Katherine Hayles 
Toward a Philosophy of Nature	           			             426
Robert P. Harrison
PARTINGS
 Toward a Conclusion						447
On the Nature of Nature: An Eclectic Reading List		461
Notes								477	
Index								547






















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