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12 produkter
Blazing Heritage
A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks
E-bok, 2007
850 kr
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National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national parks were a psychic battleground for the contests between fire suppression and its use as a management tool. Blazing …
Blazing Heritage
A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks
Inbunden, 2007
1050 kr
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National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national parks were a psychic battleground for the contests between fire suppression and its use as a management tool. Blazing …
Blazing Heritage
A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks
E-bok, 2007
850 kr
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National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national parks were a psychic battleground for the contests between fire suppression and its use as a management tool. Blazing …
On Rims and Ridges
The Los Alamos Area Since 1880
Häftad, 1997
241 kr
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New Mexico's Pajarito Plateau encompasses the Bandelier National Monument and the atomic city of Los Alamos. On Rims and Ridges throws into stark relief what happens when native cultures and Euro-American commercial interests interact in such a remote area with limited resources. The demands of …
Playing the Odds
Las Vegas and the Modern West
Av Hal K. Rothman, Lincoln Bramwell
Häftad, 2007
491 kr
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Making of Modern Nevada
Häftad, 2010
252 kr
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Nevada has always been different from other states. Almost from its beginning, Nevada sanctioned behaviors considered immoral elsewhere—gambling, prize-fighting, brothels, easy divorce—and embraced a culture of individualism and disdain for the constraints of more conventional society. In The …
Death Valley National Park
A History
Av Hal K. Rothman, Char Miller
Häftad, 2013
273 kr
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The first comprehensive study of the park, past and present, Death Valley National Park probes the environmental and human history of this most astonishing desert. Established as a national monument in 1933, Death Valley was an anomaly within the national park system. Though many who knew this …
Saving the Planet
The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2001
182 kr
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Hal Rothman chronicles the American response to the environment in the 20th century, showing how the idea of conservation management was transformed after World War II into a program for quality of life. His cogent narrative history is punctuated throughout with accounts of crucial episodes in the …
On Rims and Ridges
Inbunden, 1992
785 kr
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'A fine environmental history...Known more for its role in the development of the atomic bomb than for its natural resources, the Los Alamos area characterizes the struggle between institutions and environmental values common throughout the American West...Rothman interweaves human and natural …
Reopening the American West
Av Hal K. Rothman, Hal K. Rothman m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
304 kr
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Take a good look at the American West and you'll see that the frontier is undergoing constant changes not only changes made to the land but also changes in attitudes about the land held by the people who live there. In this book Mike Davis, Stephen Pyne, William deBuys, Donald Worster, Dan Flores, …
Culture of Tourism, the Tourism of Culture
Selling the Past to the Present in the American Southwest
Inbunden, 2003
398 kr
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The Southwest has long been one of America's dreamscapes, a place we go to relive and reinvent our past for the purposes of the present. Yet the Southwest is a real place, too, one where people live and make a living. This collection of essays looks at the ways tourism affects people and places in …
