Savage Dreams A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West

Name: Savage Dreams A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West
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ISBN: 9780520282285

ISBN-10: 0520282280

ISBN-13: 9780520282285

Edition: 20th 2014

Authors: Rebecca Solnit

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"A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."Larry McMurtryIn 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century laterin 1951and 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…

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List price: $26.95
Edition: 20th
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/6/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.19" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Rebecca Solnit writes extensively on photography and landscape. She is a contributing editor to Art Issues and Creative Camera and is the author of three books. She has contributed essays to several museum catalogues including Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach and the Whitney Museum's Beat Culture and the New America. She was a 1993 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.