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Nature's Nation

Author : Karl Kusserow,Alan C. Braddock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300237006

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Nature's Nation by Karl Kusserow,Alan C. Braddock Pdf

This multidisciplinary book offers the first broad ecocritical review of American art and examines the environmental contexts of artistic practice from the colonial period to the present day. Tracing how visions of the environment have changed from the Native-European encounter to the emergence of modern ecological activism, more than a dozen scholars and practitioners discuss how artists have both responded to and actively instigated changes in ecological understanding.

Screening Nature and Nation

Author : Michael D. Clemens
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771993357

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Screening Nature and Nation by Michael D. Clemens Pdf

The stunning portrayals of the Canadian landscape in the documentaries produced by the National Film Board of Canada, not only influenced cinematic language but shaped our perception of the environment. In the early days of the organization, nature films produced by the NFB supported the Canadian government’s nation-building project and show the state as an active participant in the cultural construction of the land. By the mid-1960s however, films like Cree Hunters of Mistassini and Death of a Legend were asking provocative questions about the state’s vision of nature. Filmmakers like Boyce Richardson and Bill Mason began to centre the experiences of First Nations people, contest the notion that nature should be transformed for economic gain, and challenge the idea that the North is a wild and empty landscape bereft of civilization. Author Michael Clemens describes how films produced by the NFB broadened the ecological imagination of Canadians over time and ultimately inspired an environmental movement.

Nature's Nation

Author : John Opie
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X004208408

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Nature's Nation examines our consumer-based industrial and urban society and notes the heavy price paid to create this by placing the political, economic, social and cultural development of the U.S within an environmental framework.

Canoe Nation

Author : Bruce Erickson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774822510

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More than an ancient means of transportation and trade, the canoe has come to be a symbol of Canada itself. In Canoe Nation, Bruce Erickson argues that the canoe's sentimental power has come about through a set of narratives that attempt to legitimize a particular vision of Canada that overvalues the nation's connection to nature. From Alexander Mackenzie to Grey Owl to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the canoe authenticates Canada's reputation as a tolerant, environmentalist nation, even when there is abundant evidence to the contrary. Ultimately, the stories we tell about the canoe need to be understood as moments in the ever-contested field of cultural politics.

Nature and Nation

Author : Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0824828631

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Nature and Nation by Jeyamalar Kathirithamby-Wells Pdf

Nature and Nation explores the relations between people and forests in Peninsular Malaysia where the planet's richest terrestrial eco-system met head-on with the fastest pace of economic transformation experienced in the tropical world. It engages the interplay of history, culture, science, economics and politics to provide a holistic interpretation of the continuing relevance of forests to state and society in the moist tropics. Malaysia has long been singled out for emulation by developing nations, an accolade contradicted in recent years by concerns over its capital-, rather than poverty-driven forest depletion. The Malaysian case supports the call for re-appraisal of entrenched prescriptions for development that go beyond material needs. -- Book cover.

Nature, Empire, and Nation

Author : Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0804755442

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Nature, Empire, and Nation by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Pdf

This collection of essays explores two traditions of interpreting and manipulating nature in the early-modern and nineteenth-century Iberian world: one instrumental and imperial, the other patriotic and national. Imperial representations laid the ground for the epistemological transformations of the so-called Scientific Revolutions. The patriotic narratives lie at the core of the first modern representations of the racialized body, Humboldtian theories of biodistribution, and views of the landscape as a historical text representing different layers of historical memory.

Nature's Nation

Author : Perry Miller
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674865537

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The Nation's Nature

Author : James David Drake
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813931227

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"In The Nation's Nature, James D. Drake examines how a relatively small number of inhabitants of the Americas, huddled along North America's east coast, came to mentally appropriate the entire continent and to think of their nation as America. Drake demonstrates how British North American colonists' participation in scientific debates and imperial contests shaped their notions of global geography. These ideas, in turn, solidified American nationalism, spurred a revolution, and shaped the ratification of the Constitution."--Publisher description.

Quagmire

Author : David Andrew Biggs
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295801544

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Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History In the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam’s most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major role in Vietnam’s turbulent past, from the struggles of colonialism to the Cold War and the present day. Quagmire considers these struggles, their antecedents, and their legacies through the lens of environmental history. Beginning with the French conquest in the 1860s, colonial reclamation schemes and pacification efforts centered on the development of a dense network of new canals to open land for agriculture. These projects helped precipitate economic and environmental crises in the 1930s, and subsequent struggles after 1945 led to the balkanization of the delta into a patchwork of regions controlled by the Viet Minh, paramilitary religious sects, and the struggling Franco-Vietnamese government. After 1954, new settlements were built with American funds and equipment in a crash program intended to solve continuing economic and environmental problems. Finally, the American military collapse in Vietnam is revealed as not simply a failure of policy makers but also a failure to understand the historical, political, and environmental complexity of the spaces American troops attempted to occupy and control. By exploring the delta as a quagmire in both natural and political terms, Biggs shows how engineered transformations of the Mekong Delta landscape - channelized rivers, a complex canal system, hydropower development, deforestation - have interacted with equally complex transformations in the geopolitics of the region. Quagmire delves beyond common stereotypes to present an intricate, rich history that shows how closely political and ecological issues are intertwined in the human interactions with the water environment in the Mekong Delta. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp1-UItZqsk

Nature's Colony

Author : Timothy P Barnard
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9789814722452

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Established in 1859, Singapore's Botanic Gardens has served as a park for Singaporeans and visitors, a scientific institution, and a testing ground for tropical plantation crops. Each function has its own story, while the Gardens also fuel an underlying narrative of the juncture of administrative authority and the natural world. Created to help exploit natural resources for the British Empire, the Gardens became contested ground in conflicts involving administrators and scientists that reveal shifting understandings of power, science and nature in Singapore and in Britain. This continued after independence, when the Gardens featured in the "e;greening"e; of the nation-state, and became Singapore's first World Heritage Site. Positioning the Singapore Botanic Gardens alongside the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and gardens in India, Ceylon, Mauritius and the West Indies, this book tells the story of nature's colony-a place where plants were collected, classified and cultivated to change our understanding of the region and world.

How Green Were the Nazis?

Author : Franz-Josef Brüggemeier,Mark Cioc,Thomas Zeller
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821416471

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How Green Were the Nazis? by Franz-Josef Brüggemeier,Mark Cioc,Thomas Zeller Pdf

Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich is the first book to examine the Third Reich's environmental policies and to offer an in-depth exploration of the intersections between brown ideologies and green practices.

Nationalizing Nature

Author : Frederico Freitas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108844833

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Nationalizing Nature by Frederico Freitas Pdf

An insightful look at how Brazil and Argentina employed national parks to develop and settle frontier areas.

Linnaeus

Author : Lisbet Koerner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674039698

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Linnaeus by Lisbet Koerner Pdf

Drawing on letters, poems, notebooks, and secret diaries, Lisbet Koerner tells the moving story of one of the most famous naturalists who ever lived, the Swedish-born botanist and systematizer, Carl Linnaeus. The first scholarly biography of this great Enlightenment scientist in almost one hundred years, Linnaeus also recounts for the first time Linnaeus' grand and bizarre economic projects: to teach tea, saffron, and rice to grow on the Arctic tundra and to domesticate buffaloes, guinea pigs, and elks as Swedish farm animals. Linnaeus hoped to reproduce the economy of empire and colony within the borders of his family home by growing cash crops in Northern Europe. Koerner shows us the often surprising ways he embarked on this project. Her narrative goes against the grain of Linnaean scholarship old and new by analyzing not how modern Linnaeus was, but how he understood science in his time. At the same time, his attempts to organize a state economy according to principles of science prefigured an idea that has become one of the defining features of modernity. Meticulously researched, and based on archival data, Linnaeus will be of compelling interest to historians of the Enlightenment, historians of economics, and historians of science. But this engaging, often funny, and sometimes tragic portrait of a great man will be valued by general readers as well.

The Better Angels of Our Nature

Author : Steven Pinker
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780143122012

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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.

Painting Nature for the Nation

Author : Rosina Buckland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004249417

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In Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan, Rosina Buckland offers an account of the career of the painter Taki Katei (1830–1901). Drawing on a large body of previously unpublished paintings, collaborative works and book illustrations by this highly successful, yet neglected, figure, Buckland traces how Katei transformed his art and practice based in modes derived from China in order to fulfil the needs of the modern nation-state at large-scale exhibitions and at the imperial court.