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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: John OpiePublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.362kg ISBN: 9780803232785ISBN 10: 0803232780 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 01 January 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback 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 ContentsReviewsThis book can usefully guide students to think about how Americans have continually reconstructed their sense of place as they searched for an often problematic authenticity. --David E./i>--David E. Nye American Studies Journal In persuasively linking the modern digital technologies of imagined reality to their historical antecedents, Opie has produced an important book and a new framework for understanding the story, one that is all the more relevant the more virtual our reality becomes. -- Gregory Summers Annals of Iowa Opie's book will help us maintain genuine connectivity in the cyber era. --Brian Black, Technology and Culture --Brian Black Technology and Culture This book can usefully guide students to think about how Americans have continually reconstructed their sense of place as they searched for an often problematic authenticity. -David E. Nye, American Studies Journal -- David E. Nye * American Studies Journal * Opie's book will help us maintain genuine connectivity in the cyber era. -Brian Black, Technology and Culture -- Brian Black * Technology and Culture * In persuasively linking the modern digital technologies of imagined reality to their historical antecedents, Opie has produced an important book and a new framework for understanding the story, one that is all the more relevant the more virtual our reality becomes. -Gregory Summers, Annals of Iowa -- Gregory Summers * Annals of Iowa * This is the book for any intelligent, concerned, sensitive person who might be given to weeping over the screech of a chain saw when a neighbor fells a tree or depression as developers extend yet another strip mall into the countryside. It has the power to change one's life. -P. D. Travis, Choice Magazine -- P. D. Travis * Choice Magazine * Author InformationJohn Opie is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental History and Policy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is the founding editor of the journal Environmental History and the author of Nature's Nation: An Environmental History of the United States and Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land, available in a Bison Books edition. Opie currently lives on the Indiana Dunes of Lake Michigan and teaches at the University of Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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