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WESTERN PARADOX, THE: A Conservation Reader (Yale Western Americana Series (Unnumbered).) - Softcover

Buch 6 von 36: The Lamar Series in Western History

Devoto, Bernard

 
9780300084238: WESTERN PARADOX, THE: A Conservation Reader (Yale Western Americana Series (Unnumbered).)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300084234 ISBN 13: 9780300084238
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

"This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto's crusade to save the West from itself. . . . His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper."--Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword

Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, "a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom of thought." A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, DeVoto is best remembered for his trilogy, The Year of Decision: 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, and The Course of Empire. He also wrote a column for Harper's Magazine, in which he fulminated about his many concerns, particularly the exploitation and destruction of the American West.

This volume brings together ten of DeVoto's acerbic and still timely essays on Western conservation issues, along with his unfinished conservationist manifesto, Western Paradox, which has never before been published. The book also includes a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who was a student of DeVoto's at Harvard University, and a substantial introduction by Douglas Brinkley and Patricia Limerick, both of whom shed light on DeVoto's work and legacy.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Douglas Brinkley is director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans. Patricia Nelson Limerick is professor of history at the University of Colorado.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300084234
ISBN 13 
9780300084238
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
584
Herausgeber
Brinkley Douglas, Limerick Patricia Nelson
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