Conflicted American Landscapes

by David E Nye

How conflicting ideas of nature threaten to fracture America's identity.

Amber waves of grain, purple mountain majesties: American invest much of their national identity in sites of natural beauty. And yet American lands today are torn by conflicts over science, religion, identity, and politics. Creationists believe that the Biblical flood carved landscapes less than 10,000 years ago; environmentalists protest pipelines; Western states...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262542080
• ISBN13: 9780262542081
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"