Nature and Culture in America – serie
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9 produkter
In Darkest Alaska
Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage
E-bok, 2011
504 kr
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Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up …
Tropical Whites
The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas
E-bok, 2013
1125 kr
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As late as 1900, most whites regarded the tropics as "the white man's grave," a realm of steamy fertility, moral dissolution, and disease. So how did the tropical beach resort-white sand, blue waters, and towering palms-become the iconic vacation landscape? Tropical Whites explores the dramatic …
Empire of Vines
Wine Culture in America
E-bok, 2013
739 kr
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The lush, sun-drenched vineyards of California evoke a romantic, agrarian image of winemaking, though in reality the industry reflects American agribusiness at its most successful. Nonetheless, as author Erica Hannickel shows, this fantasy is deeply rooted in the history of grape cultivation in …
In Darkest Alaska
Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage
Häftad, 2008
399 kr
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Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up …
Empire of Vines
Wine Culture in America
Inbunden, 2013
619 kr
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The lush, sun-drenched vineyards of California evoke a romantic, agrarian image of winemaking, though in reality the industry reflects American agribusiness at its most successful. Nonetheless, as author Erica Hannickel shows, this fantasy is deeply rooted in the history of grape cultivation in …
Rendering Nature
Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics
Av Marguerite S. Shaffer, Phoebe S. K. Young
Inbunden, 2015
927 kr
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We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and natural worlds confront us at every turn, whether at the most basic level of survival-health, sustenance, shelter-or in relation to our comfort-driven desires. As demand for resources both necessary and unnecessary …
Free and Natural
Nudity and the American Cult of the Body
Inbunden, 2019
524 kr
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From Naked Juice® to nude yoga, contemporary society is steeped in language that draws a connection from nudity to nature, wellness, and liberation. This branding promotes a "free and natural" lifestyle to mostly white and middle-class Americans intent on protecting their own bodies-and those of …
Rendering Nature
Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics
Av Marguerite S. Shaffer, Phoebe S. K. Young
E-bok, 2015
1125 kr
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We exist at a moment during which the entangled challenges facing the human and natural worlds confront us at every turn, whether at the most basic level of survival-health, sustenance, shelter-or in relation to our comfort-driven desires. As demand for resources both necessary and unnecessary …
Free and Natural
Nudity and the American Cult of the Body
E-bok, 2019
621 kr
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From Naked Juice® to nude yoga, contemporary society is steeped in language that draws a connection from nudity to nature, wellness, and liberation. This branding promotes a "free and natural" lifestyle to mostly white and middle-class Americans intent on protecting their own bodies-and those of …
