The City Natural by Shen Hou
The weekly magazine Garden and Forest existed for only nine years (1888-1897). As Hou shows, the publication also promoted forest management and preservation, not only as a natural resource but as an economic one. Shen Hou's study gives Garden and Forest its due and adds an important new chapter to the early history of American environmentalism.In focusing on a publication that advanced the concerns and arguments of educated environmentalists writing from a diverse range of interests and fields, Hou restores a sense of coherence to a field that is often presented as a set of splinters and polarities. . Will [be read] profitably by specialists in the field and graduate students, scholars who will appreciate its emphasis on recapturing the sense of consensus in Gilded Age environmentalism that the apty entitled 'Garden and Forest' advanced.
* Environmental History *Shen Hou brings to life the most astonishing periodical in American environmental history! More than a century ago, Garden and Forest challenged readers to ponder the meaning of nature in an urbanizing world, and Hou's provocative book now challenges historians to reexamine the relationship of urban and rural reform in the formative period of American environmentalism.
* Adam Rome, University of Delaware *This wonderful title would be perfectly at home in any academic setting and would be a boon to environmental, biological, or historical departments on any campus. Highly recommended.
* Choice *With clear and engaging prose, The City Natural reconstructs an early and surprisingly expansive environmental vision that was as concerned with places like Boston and New York City as it was with Walden Pond and Yosemite. The book not only adds a new dimension to the history of environmentalism but contains important lessons for our increasingly urban present.
* Michael J. Rawson, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center *Shen Hou is assistant professor of world history at Renmin University of China, Beijing. She is a former postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghau University in Beijing, and research fellow at the Rachel Carson Center at LMU in Munich, Germany.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822944232 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822944235 |
| Title | The City Natural |
| Author | Shen Hou |
| Series | History Of The Urban Environment |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Year published | 2013-02-24 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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