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Auteur:	Mitchell, Lee Clark
Titel:	Witnesses to a Vanishing America The Nineteenth-Century Response
Uitgever:	Princeton University Press
ISBN:	9780691638065
Serie:	Princeton Legacy Library
Land van oorsprong:	United States
Prijs:	€ 205,62
Verschijningsdatum:	19-04-2016
Bericht:	Langere levertijd (2-3 weken)

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Conservation of the environment

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Verschijningsvorm:	Hardback
Paginas:	340
Hoogte mm.:	229
Breedte mm.:	152
Gewicht gr.:	652

 

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Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism" and "manifest destiny," pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only partly disguised the fact that building an empire meant destroying a wilderness. Through an astonishing range of media, they voiced their concern about America's westward mission. Drawing on a wide vari