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Creating a modern wilderness playground : the transformation of the Adirondack State Park, 1920--1980
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The article was published on 2012-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 71 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Wilderness.read more
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Manliness and civilization: A cultural history of gender and race in the United States, 1880–1917
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A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
Harold D. Woodman,Leo Marx +1 more
TL;DR: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as mentioned in this paper describes a place where population, manners, and customs remain fixed, while the great torrent of migration and improvement, which is making such incessant change in other parts of this restless country, sweeps by them unobserved.
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change
Paul Walker Clarke,David Harvey +1 more
TL;DR: The passage from modernity to postmodernity in contemporary culture is discussed in this paper, with a focus on the postmodernism as the Mirror of Mirrors, and the Postmodernity as a historical condition.
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
TL;DR: Scott as discussed by the authors describes how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed and why these schemes have failed, including the one described in this paper, See Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
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The Country and the City
TL;DR: As a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city, Williams' highly-acclaimed study reveals the shifting images and associations between these two traditional poles of life throughout the major developmental periods of English culture.
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All that is solid melts into air : the experience of modernity
TL;DR: Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and cultures, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
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The Trouble with Wilderness; Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature
TL;DR: Wilderness hides its unnaturalness behind a mask that is all the more beguiling because it seems so natural as mentioned in this paper, and we too easily imagine that what we gaze into the mirror it holds up for us, when in fact we see the reflection of our own unexamined longings and desires.