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Slide Mountain, or, The folly of owning nature / Theodore Steinberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520918467
  • 0520918460
  • 0585041121
  • 9780585041124
Other title:
  • Folly of owning nature
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Slide Mountain, or, The folly of owning nature.DDC classification:
  • 333.3/0973 20
LOC classification:
  • HD1251 .S74 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Fast Fish in America: An Introduction; 1. Blackbird's Ghost: Real Estate and Other Fantasies; 2. Identity Crisis in Bayou Country; 3. Notes from Underground: The Private Life of Water; 4. Cloudbusting in Fulton County; 5. Three-D Deeds: The Rise of Air Rights in New York; Paper Moon: A Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Summary: Tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature. This book recounts the battle for three thousand acres of land the river carved from a Nebraska Indian reservation and deposited in Iowa. It illuminates what it means to live in a culture of property where everything must have an owner.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-203) and index.

Print version record.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Fast Fish in America: An Introduction; 1. Blackbird's Ghost: Real Estate and Other Fantasies; 2. Identity Crisis in Bayou Country; 3. Notes from Underground: The Private Life of Water; 4. Cloudbusting in Fulton County; 5. Three-D Deeds: The Rise of Air Rights in New York; Paper Moon: A Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

Tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature. This book recounts the battle for three thousand acres of land the river carved from a Nebraska Indian reservation and deposited in Iowa. It illuminates what it means to live in a culture of property where everything must have an owner.

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