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Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation First Edition, Edition
Contributor(s): Jacoby, Karl (Author)
ISBN: 0520282299     ISBN-13: 9780520282292
Publisher: University of California Press
OUR PRICE:   $31.63  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - General
- Nature | Natural Resources
- Science | History
Dewey: 333.780
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6" W x 9" (1.12 lbs) 352 pages
 
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Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.