Savage Dreams - A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West (Paperback, First Edition,)

"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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2014
First published:	June 2014
Authors:	Rebecca Solnit
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	408
Edition:	First Edition,
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-28228-5
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmentalist thought & ideology Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-28228-0
Barcode:	9780520282285

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