Crimes against Nature

Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
1. Auflage, With a New Afterword 2014
ISBN: 978-0-520-28229-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 151 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacoby, Karl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations xi
List of Tables xiii
Preface xv

Introduction: The Hidden History of American Conservation 1
PART I. Forest: The Adirondacks
1. The Re-creation of Nature 11
2. Public Property and Private Parks 29
3. Working-Class Wilderness 48

PART II. Mountain: Yellowstone
4. Nature and Nation 81
5. Fort Yellowstone 99
6. Modes of Poaching and Production 121

PART III. Desert: The Grand Canyon
7. The Havasupai Problem 149
8. Farewell Song 171

Epilogue: Landscapes of Memory and Myth Chronology of American Conservation Notes 203
Bibliography 267
Index 293

Afterword 199
Chronology of American Conservation 205
Notes 209
Bibliography 273
Index 299

Über Autor(innen)

Karl Jacoby is a professor in the Department of History and in the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. He is the author of Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History.