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Author Solnit, Rebecca.

Title Savage Dreams : a Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.

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Summary ""A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book.""--Larry McMurtryIn 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 histor.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-403) and index.
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Subject West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Landscapes -- West (U.S.) -- History.
Landscapes.
History.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)
Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Environmental aspects -- Nevada.
Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Environmental aspects.
Nevada.
Nuclear weapons -- Testing.
Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S.)
Indians of North America -- Wars.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Solnit, Rebecca. Savage Dreams. University of California Press 2014 1306577896
ISBN 9780520957923 (electronic book)
052095792X (electronic book)
1306577896 (e-book)
9781306577892 (e-book)
0520220668
9780520220669