{"product_id":"rendering-nature-9780812247251","title":"Rendering Nature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBridging 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRendering Nature\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eDestruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. The Nature-Culture Paradox\u003cbr\u003e —Marguerite S. Shaffer and Phoebe S. K. Young\u003cbr\u003e PART I. ANIMALS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Beasts of the Southern Wild: Slaveholders, Slaves, and Other Animals in Charles Ball's Slavery in the United States\u003cbr\u003e —Thomas G. Andrews\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Stuffed: Nature and Science on Display\u003cbr\u003e John Herron\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Digit's Legacy: Reconsidering the Human-Nature Encounter in a Global World\u003cbr\u003e —Marguerite S. Shaffer\u003cbr\u003e PART II. BODIES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Gulick Family and the Nature of Adolescence\u003cbr\u003e —Susan A. Miller\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Children of Light: The Nature and Culture of Suntanning\u003cbr\u003e —Catherine Cocks\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Dr. Spock Is Worried: Visual Media and the Emotional History of American Environmentalism\u003cbr\u003e —Finis Dunaway\u003cbr\u003e PART III. PLACES\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Prototyping Natures: Technology, Labor, and Art on Atomic Frontiers\u003cbr\u003e —Andrew Kirk\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. River Rats in the Archive: The Colorado River and the Nature of Texts\u003cbr\u003e —Annie Gilbert Coleman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Rocks of Ages: The Decadent Desert and Sepulchral Time\u003cbr\u003e —Frieda Knobloch\u003cbr\u003e PART IV. POLITICS\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Winning the War at Manzanar: Environmental Patriotism and the Japanese American Incarceration\u003cbr\u003e —Connie Y. Chiang\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Unthinkable Visibility: Pigs, Pork, and the Spectacle of Killing and Meat\u003cbr\u003e —Brett Mizelle\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. \"Bring Tent\": The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Public Nature\u003cbr\u003e —Phoebe S. K. Young\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405725835607,"sku":"9780812247251","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812247251.jpg?v=1730493404","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rendering-nature-9780812247251","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}