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"This clear and concise volume is a solid complement to similar, recent environmental and tourism histories of protected landscapes in that state and the West." * Western Historical Quarterly *

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 • Jeff ers’s Country
2 • Nature’s Highway
3 • Big Sur: Utopia, U.S.A.?
4 • Open Space at Continent’s End
5 • The Influence of the Counterculture, Community, and State
6 • The Battle for Big Sur; or, Debating the National Environmental Ethic
7 • Defining the Value of California’s Coastline
Epilogue. Millionaires and Beaches: Th e Sociopolitical Economics of California Coastal Preservation in the Twenty-First Century

Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/10/2017
      ISBN13: 9780520294417, 978-0520294417
      ISBN10: 0520294416

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "This clear and concise volume is a solid complement to similar, recent environmental and tourism histories of protected landscapes in that state and the West." * Western Historical Quarterly *

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations
      Acknowledgments

      Introduction
      1 • Jeff ers’s Country
      2 • Nature’s Highway
      3 • Big Sur: Utopia, U.S.A.?
      4 • Open Space at Continent’s End
      5 • The Influence of the Counterculture, Community, and State
      6 • The Battle for Big Sur; or, Debating the National Environmental Ethic
      7 • Defining the Value of California’s Coastline
      Epilogue. Millionaires and Beaches: Th e Sociopolitical Economics of California Coastal Preservation in the Twenty-First Century

      Abbreviations
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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