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050		4	_aGT3203 _b.S34 2013
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100	1		_aSachs, Aaron _q(Aaron Jacob)
245	1	0	_aArcadian America _h[electronic resource] : _bthe death and life of an environmental tradition / _cAaron Sachs.
260			_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _c2013.
300			_axi, 484 p. : _bill., map.
440		0	_aNew directions in narrative history
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Perhaps America's best environmental idea was not the national park but the garden cemetery, a use of space that quickly gained popularity in the mid-nineteenth century. Such spaces of repose brought key elements of the countryside into rapidly expanding cities, making nature accessible to all and serving to remind visitors of the natural cycles of life. In this unique interdisciplinary blend of historical narrative, cultural criticism, and poignant memoir, Aaron Sachs argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten landscape tradition that has much to teach us in our current moment of environmental crisis.Until the trauma of the Civil War, many Americans sought to shape society into what they thought of as an Arcadia--not an Eden where fruit simply fell off the tree, but a public garden that depended on an ethic of communal care, and whose sense of beauty and repose related directly to an acknowledgement of mortality and limitation. Sachs explores the notion of Arcadia in the works of nineteenth-century nature writers, novelists, painters, horticulturists, landscape architects, and city planners, and holds up for comparison the twenty-first century's--and his own--tendency toward denial of both death and environmental limits. His far-reaching insights suggest new possibilities for the environmental movement today and new ways of understanding American history"-- _cProvided by publisher.
533			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aCemeteries _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aCemeteries _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCemeteries _xEnvironmental aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aArcadia in literature.
650		0	_aArcadia in art.
650		0	_aEnvironmentalism _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aEnvironmental responsibility _zUnited States.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
710	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3421101 _zClick to View
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