Technologies of landscape : from reaping to recycling /
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| Imprint: | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1999. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 292 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11113042 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Technologies of Landscape
- Ephemeral Landscapes
- 1. Agricultural Technology and the Ephemeral Landscape
- 2. Journey into Space: Interpretations of Landscape in Contemporary Art
- Inventing Landscapes
- 3. Abandoning Paradise: The Western Pictorial Paradigm Shift around 1420
- 4. The Employment of the Word: Writing, Topography, and Colonial Landscapes
- 5. Remaking a "Natural Menace": Engineering the Colorado River
- Resisting Rural Modernity
- 6. Begrudging Aesthetics for a New South: The Farm Security Administration Photographic Project and Southern Modernization, 1935 to 1943
- 7. Making and Meaning in the English Countryside
- Narrating Pollution
- 8. Public Perceptions of Smoke Pollution in Victorian Manchester
- 9. Narrating the Toxic Landscape in "Cancer Alley," Louisiana
- Landscape as Pathway
- 10. Benton MacKaye's Appalachian Trail: Imagining and Engineering a Landscape
- 11. "The Landscape's Crown": Landscape, Perceptions, and Modernizing Effects of the German Autobahn System, 1934 to 1941
- Touring Landscapes
- 12. The Improvement of Arthur Young: Agricultural Technology and the Production of Landscape in Eighteenth-Century England
- 13. The Road to Industrial Heterotopia: Landscape, Technology, and George Orwell's Travelogue The Road to Wigan Pier
- 14. Recycled Landscapes: Mining's Legacies in the Mesabi Iron Range
- Notes on Contributors
- Index