| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 178 pages) : illustrations |
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American land and life series |
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American land and life series.
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| Contents |
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The White Mountains from Northern Frontier to Tourist Resort; 1 Texts and Terrain: Jeremy Belknap and Eighteenth-CenturyLandscape Ideology; 2 Economic Topographies: Unsettling the History of Early Tourismin New Hampshire's White Mountains; 3 The Sublime and the Sumptuous: The Currency of Scenery and White Mountain Tourism; 4 Alone with Scribe and Staff: Rewriting the White Mountains,1870 -- 1900; Epilogue: Reading and Teaching Region; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This Vast Book of Nature is a careful, engaging, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the ways in which the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire--and, by implication, other wild places--have been written into being by different visitors, residents, and developers from the post-Revolutionary era to the days of high tourism at the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawing on tourist brochures, travel accounts, pictorial representations, fiction and poetry, local histories, journals, and newspapers, Pavel Cenkl gauges how Americans have arranged space for political and economic purpos |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Landscapes -- White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) -- Historiography
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Natural history -- White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) -- Historiography
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Landscapes in literature.
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Tourism -- White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) -- History
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- Historical Geography.
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Historiography
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Landscapes -- Historiography
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Landscapes in literature
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Natural history -- Historiography
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Tourism
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Travel
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White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) -- Historiography
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White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) -- Environmental conditions -- Historiography
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White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) -- Description and travel
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| Subject |
United States -- White Mountains (New Hampshire and Maine)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781587297144 |
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1587297140 |
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