Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780520957930 (0520957938)
Publish date: March 14th 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages no: 332
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...