Crimes against nature
(2009)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2009
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780061740961 MWT15398267, 0061740969 15398267
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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