patrick mcgreevy (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1994.Popu;ar culture. Natural History. University of Massachusetts Press. 193 pages, very good - fine cloth and dust jacket 7/23.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

McGreevy, Patrick. Imagining Niagara: the meaning and making of Niagara Falls. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1994, xii, 193pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth, foxing on top foredge, book appears little used if at all. Niagara Falls was a lightning rod for nineteenth-century enthusiasms. Although travelers came to the falls to experience a place they considered outside the world of their ordinary lives, they brought with them their contemporary concerns. Many tourists were obsessed with the mysteries of death, others with scientific or religious speculation. The way they imagined Niagara Falls found expression in a torrent of writings and images that took a variety of forms., Patrick McGreevy begins with the question, What can these visions of Niagara tell us about the place itself? The landscape surrounding the falls contains not only parks and religious shrines but also circuses, horror museums, and factories. People travel to Niagara not only to experience nature but also to celebrate marriages or commit suicide., One way to make sense of these bizarre "human accumulations," as H.G. Wells called them, is to take seriously the Niagaras people have imagined. This book focuses on four interlocking themes that recur time and again in descriptions of the falls: Niagara as a thing imagined from afar, as a metaphor for death, as an embodiment of nature, and as a focus of future events., Using the skills of a cultural geographer, McGreevy discovers some surprising connections between the Niagara people have imagined and the one they made, between its natural grandeur and its industrial exploitation, between Frederick Law Olmsted's Reservation and the Love Canal. 9780870239168 ISBN 0870239163.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 309 pages. 8.50x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Octavo. 193pp. Illustrated. Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Perfect Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.