Natural Visions The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform

Name: Natural Visions The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform
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ISBN: 9780226173252

ISBN-10: 0226173259

ISBN-13: 9780226173252

Edition: 2005

Authors: Finis Dunaway

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Documents through images the history of environmental reform from the progressive era to the first Earth Day celebration in 1970, showing the crucial role the camera played in the development of the conservation movement. The author tells the story of how visual imagery shaped modern perceptions of the world.

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Finis Dunaway researches and writes about American cultural and environmental history. He is associate professor of history at Trent University, Canada.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction


List of Abbreviations



Transcendental Vision



Gleason's Transparent Eyeball



The Nature of the New Deal



The Decline to Dust



The River of Time



A Flicker of Permanence



Picturing the American Earth



Nature on the Coffee Table



Thoreau With a Camera



American Elegy, American Renewal


Epilogue: The Ecological Sublime


Notes


Index