Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West by Solnit, Rebecca

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Berkeley. 2014. University of California Press. 1st Printing of this 20th Anniversary Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520282285. 408 pages. paperback. Cover design by Sandy Drooker. keywords: History America West Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 'A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book.'-Larry McMurtry. In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later?in 1951?and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin. In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its implementation as politics. In a new preface, she considers the continuities and changes of… Read More

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Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; "A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."--Larry McMurtry In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later--in 1951--and a hundred and fifty miles away, a

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Univ of California Pr, 2014. Paperback. New. anv edition. 424 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.25 inches.