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BL
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953411
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b707781
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Cenkl, Pavel,1971-
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| Title & Author
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This vast book of nature : : writing the landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911 /\ Pavel Cenkl ; foreword by Wayne Franklin.
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| Publication Statement
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Iowa City :: University of Iowa Press,, ©2006.
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| Series Statement
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American land and life series
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xxv, 178 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1587297140
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: 9781587297144
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1587294982
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9781587294983
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index.
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| Contents
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Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The White Mountains from Northern Frontier to Tourist Resort; 1 Texts and Terrain: Jeremy Belknap and Eighteenth-CenturyLandscape Ideology; 2 Economic Topographies: Unsettling the History of Early Tourismin New Hampshire's White Mountains; 3 The Sublime and the Sumptuous: The Currency of Scenery andWhite Mountain Tourism; 4 Alone with Scribe and Staff: Rewriting the White Mountains,1870 -- 1900; Epilogue: Reading and Teaching Region; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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| Abstract
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This Vast Book of Nature is a careful, engaging, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the ways in which the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire--and, by implication, other wild places--have been written into being by different visitors, residents, and developers from the post-Revolutionary era to the days of high tourism at the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawing on tourist brochures, travel accounts, pictorial representations, fiction and poetry, local histories, journals, and newspapers, Pavel Cenkl gauges how Americans have arranged space for political and economic purpos.
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| Subject
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Landscapes in literature.
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Landscapes-- White Mountains (N.H. and Me.)-- Historiography.
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Natural history-- White Mountains (N.H. and Me.)-- Historiography.
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Tourism-- White Mountains (N.H. and Me.)-- History.
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Historiography
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HISTORY-- Historical Geography.
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HISTORY-- State Local-- General.
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HISTORY-- State Local.
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Landscapes in literature
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Landscapes-- Historiography
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Natural history-- Historiography
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Tourism
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Travel
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White Mountains (N.H. and Me.), Description and travel.
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White Mountains (N.H. and Me.), Environmental conditions, Historiography.
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White Mountains (N.H. and Me.), Historiography.
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United States, White Mountains (New Hampshire and Maine)
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| Dewey Classification
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974.2/203072
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| LC Classification
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F41.3.C46 2006
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