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More copies of this ISBN:Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservationby Karl Jacoby
AwardsWinner of the 2001 Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association
Co-winner of the 2001 George Perkins Marsh Prize for the best book in environmental history, American Society for Environmental History Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Review:"An unsettling study of early conservation, one that reminds readers that battles to save nature were also battles to colonize places and peoples....This is an excellent and timely book." Joseph Taylor III, Journal of American History Review:"A well-conceived, solidly researched, and clearly written work with important conclusions but even richer possibilities. Anyone interested in environmental history or the contributions it can make to other fields in our discipline ought to read it. Anyone interested in important questions and methods in environmental history has to study it carefully." Thomas Dunlap, Reviews in American History Review:"This insightful and lucid book combines social with environmental history, enriching both....Timely, eloquent, and provocative, Crimes against Nature illuminates contemporary struggles, especially in the West, over our environment." Alan Taylor, author of William Cooper's Town Review:"A compelling new interpretation of early conservation history in the United States....Powerfully argued and beautifully written, this book could hardly be more relevant to the environmental challenges we face today." William Cronon, author of Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West Review:"What a powerful and yet subtle tale of the fraught encounter between the conservationists' desire to 'engineer' wilderness with the property regime of the modern state and the unique, local, 'moral ecologies' of those who resisted! Rarely has this level of originality, close reasoning, and historical texture been brought into such harmony while preserving the whiff of lived experience." James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State Synopsis:Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-291) and index.
Synopsis:A beautifully-written history of the hidden side of the early conservation movement. It describes the creation of three great National Parks--the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon--and the reactions of the people living on those lands, whose ordinary activities, like hunting, wood-gathering, and fishing, suddenly became crimes against nature. About the AuthorKarl Jacoby is the Robert J. Carney Assistant Professor of History at Brown University. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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