Savage Dreams
A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8070971 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Solnit (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 435 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Savage Dreams (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/9780520957923 |
| OpenAlex | W4237578962 |
| ISBN | 9780520957923 |
| Open Library | OL29695579M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."—Larry McMurtry In 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 history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its implementation as politics. In a new preface, she considers the continuities and changes of these invisible wars in the context of our current climate change crisis, and reveals how the long arm of these histories continue to inspire her writing and hope
Art · American Environmental and Regional History · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · description and travel · Environmental aspects · Fiction · Fiction, general · General · History · Indians · Indians of North America · Landscape · Landscapes · Nevada · Nuclear weapons · Nuclear weapons, testing · Testing · Wars · West (U.S.) · Yosemite National Park
Visualizing the Nuclear
Drill, Baby, Drill
To Renovate and Make Critical
Connecting artfully in the context of the emerging climate crisis
Deserted myths and nuclear realities
What if Edward Abbey's “Monkey Wrench Gang” had Succeeded? The Ghosts of Glen Canyon Past, Present, and Future
"Memory Effects" and Dark Histories
Save the Appearances! Toward an Arendtian Environmental Politics
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |