A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia's Ecology in the Cultural Imagination Contributor(s): Braddock, Alan C. (Editor), Igoe, Laura Turner (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0271077131 ISBN-13: 9780271077130 Publisher: Penn State University Press OUR PRICE: $105.88 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - History | Historical Geography - Nature | Ecology |
Dewey: 307.760 |
LCCN: 2016031246 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7.2" W x 10.3" (1.60 lbs) 248 pages |
Themes: - Locality - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Topical - Ecology - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An unconventional history of Philadelphia that operates at the threshold of cultural and environmental studies, A Greene Country Towne expands the meaning of community beyond people to encompass nonhuman beings, things, and forces. By examining a diverse range of cultural acts and material objects created in Philadelphia--from Native American artifacts, early stoves, and literary works to public parks, photographs, and paintings--through the lens of new materialism, the essays in A Greene Country Towne ask us to consider an urban environmental history in which humans are not the only protagonists. This collection reimagines the city as a system of constantly evolving constituents and agencies that have interacted over time, a system powerfully captured by Philadelphia artists, writers, architects, and planners since the seventeenth century. In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Maria Farland, Nate Gabriel, Andrea L. M. Hansen, Scott Hicks, Michael Dean Mackintosh, Amy E. Menzer, Stephen Nepa, John Ott, Sue Ann Prince, and Mary I. Unger. |
Contributor Bio(s): Braddock, Alan C.: - Alan C. Braddock is Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies at the College of William and Mary as well as Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity (2009) and coeditor of A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History (2009).Igoe, Laura Turner: - Laura Turner Igoe is the Maher Curatorial Fellow of American Art at Harvard Art Museums. She is completing a book manuscript titled Art and Ecology in the Early Republic. |