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100 _aCronon, William Ed.
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245 _aUncommon ground
_brethinking the human place in nature
260 _aNew York
_bW.W. Norton & Company
_c1996
300 _a561p.
500 _aList 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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