Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780520239098 (0520239091)
Publish date: February 3rd 2003
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 324
Edition language: English
The first section, on the Adirondack State Park, was most interesting to me. Jacoby highlights what he calls the “hidden history of American Conservation, by which he means the consolidation of state power, the systematic denigration of rural land use (Jacoby calls this “degradation discourse”), an...