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Author Cohen, Shaul Ephraim, 1961-

Title Planting nature : trees and the manipulation of environmental stewardship in America / Shaul E. Cohen.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 210 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-199) and index.
Contents Taking control of nature -- Planting patriotism, cultivating institutions -- The National Arbor Day Foundation: modifying the natural world -- American forests: planting the future -- Uncle Sam plants for you -- The greatest good -- Celebritrees.
Summary Trees hold a powerful place in American constructions of what is good in nature and the environment. As we attempt to cope with environmental crises, trees are increasingly enlisted with great fervor as agents of our stewardship over nature. In this innovative and impassioned book, Shaul E.
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Subject Afforestation -- United States.
Afforestation.
United States.
Afforestation -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
Afforestation -- Environmental aspects.
Afforestation -- Government policy -- United States.
Afforestation -- Government policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Cohen, Shaul Ephraim, 1961- Planting nature. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2004 0520237706 (DLC) 2003019073 (OCoLC)53002597
ISBN 9780520929913 (electronic book)
0520929918 (electronic book)
1417508310 (electronic book)
9781417508310 (electronic book)
0520237706 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520237704 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
1597348090
9781597348096
1282357085
9781282357082