Savage Dreams

A Journey Into the Hidden Wars of the American West
1. Auflage, 20th Anniversary Auflage, with a New Preface Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-520-28228-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 506 g

"A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."—Larry McMurtry

In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later–in 1951–and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin.

In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its implementation as politics. In a new preface, she considers the continuities and changes of these invisible wars in the context of our current climate change crisis, and reveals how the long arm of these histories continue to inspire her writing and hope.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Solnit, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Umweltgeschichte & Umweltarchäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

New Preface

DUST, OR ERASING THE FUTURE: THE NEVADA TEST SITE

From Hell to Breakfast

Like Moths to a Candle

April Fool's Day

Trees

Lise Meitner's Walking Shoes

Golden Hours and Iron County

Ruby Valley and the Ranch

The War

Keeping Pace with the Tortoise

WATER, OR FORGETTING THE PAST: YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK

The Rainbow

Spectators

Framing the View

Vanishing (Remaining)

Fire in the Garden

The Name of the Snake

Up the River of Mercy

Savage's Grave

Full Circle

Afterword

Sources

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca Solnit is the author of many books, including Storming the Gates of Paradise, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, all from UC Press.