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1 online resource |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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"Forests have always been more than just their trees. The forests in Michigan (and similar forests in other Great Lakes states such as Wisconsin and Minnesota) played a role in the American cultural imagination from the beginnings of European settlement in the early 19th century to the present. Our relationships with those forests have been shaped by the cultural attitudes of the times, and people have invested in them both moral and spiritual meanings. Author John Knott draws upon such works as Simon Schama's Landscape and Memory and Robert Pogue Harrison's Forests: The Shadow of Civilization in exploring ways in which our relationships with forests have been shaped, using Michigan-its history of settlement, popular literature, and forest management controversies-as an exemplary case. Knott looks at such well-known figures as William Bradford, James Fenimore Cooper, John Muir, John Burroughs, and Teddy Roosevelt; Ojibwa conceptions of the forest and natural world (including how Longfellow mythologized them); early explorer accounts; and contemporary literature set in the Upper Peninsula, including Jim Harrison's True North and Philip Caputo's Indian Country.Two competing metaphors evolved over time, Knott shows: the forest as howling wilderness, impeding the progress of civilization and in need of subjugation, and the forest as temple or cathedral, worthy of reverence and protection. Imagining the Forest shows the origin and development of both"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-301) and index. |
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Contents -- Introduction -- 1 // What Was Here Before -- 2 // Clearings -- 3 // The Culture of Logging -- 4 // Stewart Edward White and the Logger as Frontier Hero -- 5 // Loss and Renewal -- 6 // The Forest as Playground -- 7 // The Forest as Ecosystem -- 8 // Designing the Forest -- Coda -- Notes -- Index |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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English. |
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Michigan -- In literature.
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Michigan. |
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Middle West -- In literature.
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Forests in literature.
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Forests in literature. |
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Forestry in literature.
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Forestry in literature. |
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Nature in literature.
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Nature in literature. |
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Forests and forestry -- Michigan -- History.
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Forests and forestry. |
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Natural history -- Michigan.
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Great Lakes Region (North America) -- Description and travel.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. |
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History. |
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NATURE / Essays. |
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Natural history. |
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). |
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Literature. |
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Travel. |
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Great Lakes Region. |
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Middle West. |
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Multi-User |
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History.
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Print version: Imagining the forest Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2012] 9780472071647 (acid-free paper) (DLC) 2011023782 |
| ISBN |
9780472028078 e-book |
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0472028073 |
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9780472051649 paperback : acid-free paper |
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9780472071647 acid-free paper |
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0472071645 (acid-free paper) |
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0472051644 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
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1283373335 |
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9781283373333 |
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9786613373335 |
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6613373338 |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.3678601 |
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