Description
Book SynopsisBridging the fields of environmental history and American studies, Rendering Nature examines surprising interconnections between nature and culture in distinct places, times, and contexts over the course of U.S. history.
Trade Review"
Rendering Nature collects the work of exemplary scholars working at the nexus of the vibrant fields of American studies and environmental history: simultaneously collaborative and ambitious." * Andrew Isenberg, author of
Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Nature-Culture Paradox
—Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. Young
PART I. ANIMALS
Chapter 2. Beasts of the Southern Wild: Slaveholders, Slaves, and Other Animals in Charles Ball's Slavery in the United States
—Thomas G. Andrews
Chapter 3. Stuffed: Nature and Science on Display
John Herron
Chapter 4. Digit's Legacy: Reconsidering the Human-Nature Encounter in a Global World
—Marguerite S. Shaffer
PART II. BODIES
Chapter 5. The Gulick Family and the Nature of Adolescence
—Susan A. Miller
Chapter 6. Children of Light: The Nature and Culture of Suntanning
—Catherine Cocks
Chapter 7. Dr. Spock Is Worried: Visual Media and the Emotional History of American Environmentalism
—Finis Dunaway
PART III. PLACES
Chapter 8. Prototyping Natures: Technology, Labor, and Art on Atomic Frontiers
—Andrew Kirk
Chapter 9. River Rats in the Archive: The Colorado River and the Nature of Texts
—Annie Gilbert Coleman
Chapter 10. Rocks of Ages: The Decadent Desert and Sepulchral Time
—Frieda Knobloch
PART IV. POLITICS
Chapter 11. Winning the War at Manzanar: Environmental Patriotism and the Japanese American Incarceration
—Connie Y. Chiang
Chapter 12. Unthinkable Visibility: Pigs, Pork, and the Spectacle of Killing and Meat
—Brett Mizelle
Chapter 13. "Bring Tent": The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Public Nature
—Phoebe S. K. Young
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
