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American Green

Class, Crisis, and the Deployment of Nature in Central Park, Yosemite, and Yellowstone

By: Stephen Germic

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American Green

Class, Crisis, and the Deployment of Nature in Central Park, Yosemite, and Yellowstone

By: Stephen Germic

In this work of interdisciplinary scholarship, Stephen A. Germic reveals how America's first parks, both urban and "wilderness," were created and organized to mitigate the most threatening social and economic crises in the nineteenth century outside of the Civil War. Germic analyzes the intentionally disguised relationship between the constructed "nature" of Central Park, Yosemite, and Yellowstone and the expanding but crisis-prone capitalist state. American Green demonstrates how the fundamental function of these parks was economic and political--in the service of maintaining a consensus regarding national identity. The organization and control of "natural" space, Germic argues, is inseparable from its function as a capitalist instrument. This instrumentalism served not only to define, constitute, and segregate social groups, but also to promote racial and ethnic identifications above those based on class interest. Providing a fresh insight into United States labor, cultural and environmental history, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of American parks and the complex meaning of American public space.

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073910229X

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American Green

Class, Crisis, and the Deployment of Nature in Central Park, Yosemite, and Yellowstone

By: Stephen A. Germic

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American Green

Class, Crisis, and the Deployment of Nature in Central Park, Yosemite, and Yellowstone

By: Stephen A. Germic

In this work of interdisciplinary scholarship, Stephen A. Germic reveals how America's first parks, both urban and 'wilderness,' were created and organized to mitigate the most threatening social and economic crises in the nineteenth century outside of the Civil War. Germic analyzes the intentionally disguised relationship between the constructed 'nature' of Central Park, Yosemite, and Yellowstone and the expanding but crisis-prone capitalist state. American Green demonstrates how the fundamental function of these parks was economic and political—in the service of maintaining a consensus regarding national identity. The organization and control of 'natural' space, Germic argues, is inseparable from its function as a capitalist instrument. This instrumentalism served not only to define, constitute, and segregate social groups, but also to promote racial and ethnic identifications above those based on class interest. Providing a fresh insight into United States labor, cultural and environmental history, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of American parks and the complex meaning of American public space.

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159

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Lexington Books

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0739151983

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9780739151983

Sing Sing Nights

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

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Sing Sing Nights

By: Harry Stephen Keeler

Three men in Sing Sing - all writers - awaiting execution for the same crime. The body of the victim held only two bullets - one of the men is innocent. How can they find out before morning which one of them is to sign the pardon blank? Sing Sing Nights is a startling example of Mr. Keeler's uncanny power to unravel the most involved plots and during the unraveling deepen the mystery until the very end of the story.

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335

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Simon and Schuster

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1440543240

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9781440543241

Seven Steps to Eternity

The True Story of One Man's Journey into the Afterlife

By: Stephen Turoff

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Seven Steps to Eternity

The True Story of One Man's Journey into the Afterlife

By: Stephen Turoff

“I died in the Battle of the Somme...” These were the astonishing first words spoken to clairvoyant and healer Stephen Turoff by the soul of James Legett, a young soldier who was killed in the First World War. For two years, the world famous psychic surgeon communicated with the soldier’s soul, and in the process wrote down his remarkable story; not the tale of Legett’s tragically short life on the physical plane, but of his death on a battlefield in France and his soul’s subsequent journey into the afterlife. Although he works with many discarnate spirits in his clinic, the dyslexic Turoff was initially reluctant to undertake the task of writing a book. But he was persuaded by the boisterous and genial soul of the dead man. Their literary collaboration involved an unusual method: Legett presented spiritual pictures to Turoff, who with clairvoyant perception interpreted them into words. The result is this enlightening testimony of life beyond the illusion of death, filled with insight, spiritual wisdom and delightful humour. It is written to show that we are all eternal; there is no death... only change.

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194

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CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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1905570473

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9781905570478

Vitality Politics

Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation

By: Stephen Knadler

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Vitality Politics

Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation

By: Stephen Knadler

Vitality Politics focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book engages with recent critical disability studies scholarship to recognize that debility, or the targeted maiming and distressing of Black populations, is a largely unacknowledged strategy of the U.S. liberal multicultural capitalist state. This politicization of biological health serves as an instrument for insisting on a racial state of exception in which African Americans’ own unhealthy habits and disease susceptibility justifies their legitimate suspension from full rights to social justice, economic opportunity, and political freedom and equality. The book brings together disability studies, Black Studies, and African American literary history as it highlights the urgent need and gives weight to a biopolitics of debilitation and medicalization to better understand how Black lives are made not to matter in our supposedly race-neutral multicultural democracy.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472125605

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9780472125609

American Green

Class, Crisis, and the Deployment of Nature in Central Park, Yosemite, and Yellowstone

By: Stephen Germic

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Class, Crisis, and the Deployment of Nature in Central Park, Yosemite, and Yellowstone

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American Green

Class, Crisis, and the Deployment of Nature in Central Park, Yosemite, and Yellowstone

By: Stephen A. Germic

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Class, Crisis, and the Deployment of Nature in Central Park, Yosemite, and Yellowstone

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Book's by Stephen Germic

American Green

American Green

American Green

American Green

Sing Sing Nights

Sing Sing Nights

Seven Steps to Eternity

Seven Steps to Eternity

Vitality Politics

Vitality Politics

American Green

American Green

American Green

American Green

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