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Title: Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation by Karl Jacoby ISBN: 0-520-23909-1 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 03 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A lucid book on how we've "created" nature - and outlaws
Comment: Crimes Against Nature is written by one of America's foremost new thinkers on the environment. Karl Jacoby's book has all the beauty and intellectual force his lectures are famous for.
This book gives a startlingly new perspective on just how we've created our national parks. In doing so, he makes us rethink what we consider our proudest achievements - and at what cost we've achieved them. Five stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: An intriguing look at our national parks
Comment: "Conservation" seems like a completely positive word--e.g., we want to preserve nature for future generations. I remember how in awe I was when I saw the Grand Canyon for the first time.
But after reading Jacoby's book, I feel like I have a whole new perspective. Not that I don't agree that protecting the environment shouldn't be a high priority--for example, I think the idea of drilling into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil when we have all these people driving thes gas-guzzling SUVs is the height of idiocy. But this book shows that there were some human costs to creating the park--the Indians and poor white people who already lived on the land that became parks. I didn't realize that they had the U.S. army patrolling and occupying the Grand Canyon to keep people out--although I do remember thinking that the Forest rangers' uniforms (and Smoky the Bear!) were very militaristic.
Basically, what became parks were already living entities that had people living in and exploiting their natural resources and changing the environment. So now I realize when I see the Grand Canyon, it's not as if it's in a time warp, completely untouched for centuries. I plan to keep traveling and visiting more parts--esp out west, and this book has definitely deepened my understanding of our National Park system!
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Title: Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks by Mark David Spence ISBN: 0195142438 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: American Indians & National Parks by Robert H. Keller, Michael F. Turek ISBN: 0816520143 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon ISBN: 0393308731 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Destruction of the Bison : An Environmental History, 1750-1920 by Andrew C. Isenberg ISBN: 0521003482 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Changes in the Land : Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon ISBN: 0809016346 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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