Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West

Rebecca Solnit

Published by University of California Press 2014

Savage Dreams

A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West

Rebecca Solnit

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520957923

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"A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."—Larry McMurtry

In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later–in 1951–and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin.

In this foundational book of landscape theory and environmental thinking, Rebecca Solnit explores our national Eden and Armageddon and offers a pathbreaking history of the west, focusing on the relationship between culture and its implementation as politics. In a new preface, she considers the continuities and changes of these invisible wars in the context of our current climate change crisis, and reveals how the long arm of these histories continue to inspire her writing and hope.

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Solnit Rebecca :

Rebecca Solnit is the author of many books, including Storming the Gates of Paradise, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, all from UC Press.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE TO THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xxvii
DUST, OR ERASING THE FUTURE: THE NEVADA TEST SITE
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Like Moths to a Candle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
April Fool's Day Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
Trees Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
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WATER, OR FORGETTING THE PAST: YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK
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Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 435

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Published: June 6, 2014
ISBN: 9780520957923