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Arcadian America - The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition (Paperback)
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Arcadian America - The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition (Paperback)
Series: New Directions in Narrative History
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How a forgotten environmental tradition of the pre-Civil War era
may prove powerfully useful to us now Perhaps America's best
environmental idea was not the national park but the garden
cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the
mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements
of the countryside into rapidly expanding cities, making nature
accessible to all and serving to remind visitors of the natural
cycles of life. In this unique interdisciplinary blend of
historical narrative, cultural criticism, and poignant memoir,
Aaron Sachs argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten
landscape tradition that has much to teach us in our current moment
of environmental crisis. Until the trauma of the Civil War, many
Americans sought to shape society into what they thought of as an
Arcadia-not an Eden where fruit simply fell off the tree, but a
public garden that depended on an ethic of communal care, and whose
sense of beauty and repose related directly to an acknowledgement
of mortality and limitation. Sachs explores the notion of Arcadia
in the works of nineteenth-century nature writers, novelists,
painters, horticulturists, landscape architects, and city planners,
and holds up for comparison the twenty-first century's-and his
own-tendency toward denial of both death and environmental limits.
His far-reaching insights suggest new possibilities for the
environmental movement today and new ways of understanding American
history.
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