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Savage dreams: a journey into the hidden wars of the American West

By Rebecca , Solnit

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780520282285, 9780520957923, 9780520220669, 0520282280
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18709262 bytes)
Pages
440\439
Time added
2020-11-29 04:29:58
Nonfiction;History;Environment;Politics;Westerns;N

Description

In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later—1951—and about a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U. S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site, in what was called a nuclear testing program but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin.Savage Dreamsis an exploration of these two landscapes. Together they serve as our national Eden and Armageddon and offer up a lot of the history of the west, not only in terms of Indian and environmental wars, but in terms of the relationship between culture—the generation of beliefs and views—and its implementation as politics.

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