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Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

Name: Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation
ISBN: 9780520957930

Karl Jacoby

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Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Year:

2014

Publisher:

University of California Press

Language:

english

Pages:

332

ISBN 10:

0520957938

ISBN 13:

9780520957930