Nicolaas Mink
Biographic Data
| ID | 4368285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolaas Mink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolaas |
| FAMILY NAME | Mink |
| SIGNATURE | MINK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Having Our Cake and Eating it Too
A (Napoleon) Dynamite Identity
This essay examines the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite , analyzing its impacton national popular culture and rural identity in the American West, particularly in the town of Preston, Idaho, where the movie was filmed . As part coming-of-age film, part comedy, and part critique of real life, Napoleon Dynamite fashioned a unique and contested image of theWest that helps to expose the underlying anxieties, stereotypes, assumptions, and hopes that sti…
A Narrative for Nature's Nation
Most environmental historians are acquainted with Farrar and Rinehart's Rivers of America book series, but few know much about its genesis and context. This essay examines the six works edited by the series founder, Constance Lindsay Skinner, and argues that these books shed light on interwar environmental thought and suggest that environmental history, at least in its public form, is not as new as many historians in the field have supposed
Having Our Cake and Eating it Too
A Narrative for Nature's Nation
Most environmental historians are acquainted with Farrar and Rinehart's Rivers of America book series, but few know much about its genesis and context. This essay examines the six works edited by the series founder, Constance Lindsay Skinner, and argues that these books shed light on interwar environmental thought and suggest that environmental history, at least in its public form, is not as new as many historians in the field have supposed
A Narrative for Nature's Nation
Most environmental historians are acquainted with Farrar and Rinehart's Rivers of America book series, but few know much about its genesis and context. This essay examines the six works edited by the series founder, Constance Lindsay Skinner, and argues that these books shed light on interwar environmental thought and suggest that environmental history, at least in its public form, is not as new as many historians in the field have supposed
A (Napoleon) Dynamite Identity
This essay examines the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite , analyzing its impacton national popular culture and rural identity in the American West, particularly in the town of Preston, Idaho, where the movie was filmed . As part coming-of-age film, part comedy, and part critique of real life, Napoleon Dynamite fashioned a unique and contested image of theWest that helps to expose the underlying anxieties, stereotypes, assumptions, and hopes that sti…
Having Our Cake and Eating it Too
Sociology (3 works) · American History and Culture (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Economic history (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Environmental history (2 works) · History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)