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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Marguerite S. Shaffer , Phoebe S. K. YoungPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.812kg ISBN: 9780812247251ISBN 10: 0812247256 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 28 August 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Chapter 1. The Nature-Culture Paradox —Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. Young PART I. ANIMALS Chapter 2. Beasts of the Southern Wild: Slaveholders, Slaves, and Other Animals in Charles Ball's Slavery in the United States —Thomas G. Andrews Chapter 3. Stuffed: Nature and Science on Display John Herron Chapter 4. Digit's Legacy: Reconsidering the Human-Nature Encounter in a Global World —Marguerite S. Shaffer PART II. BODIES Chapter 5. The Gulick Family and the Nature of Adolescence —Susan A. Miller Chapter 6. Children of Light: The Nature and Culture of Suntanning —Catherine Cocks Chapter 7. Dr. Spock Is Worried: Visual Media and the Emotional History of American Environmentalism —Finis Dunaway PART III. PLACES Chapter 8. Prototyping Natures: Technology, Labor, and Art on Atomic Frontiers —Andrew Kirk Chapter 9. River Rats in the Archive: The Colorado River and the Nature of Texts —Annie Gilbert Coleman Chapter 10. Rocks of Ages: The Decadent Desert and Sepulchral Time —Frieda Knobloch PART IV. POLITICS Chapter 11. Winning the War at Manzanar: Environmental Patriotism and the Japanese American Incarceration —Connie Y. Chiang Chapter 12. Unthinkable Visibility: Pigs, Pork, and the Spectacle of Killing and Meat —Brett Mizelle Chapter 13. ""Bring Tent"": The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Public Nature —Phoebe S. K. Young Notes List of Contributors Index"ReviewsRendering Nature collects the work of exemplary scholars working at the nexus of the vibrant fields of American studies and environmental history: simultaneously collaborative and ambitious. -Andrew Isenberg, author of Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 Author InformationMarguerite S. Shaffer is Professor of American Studies and History at Miami University, Ohio. Phoebe S. K. Young is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |