Arcadian America

Informationen zum Autor Aaron Sachs is associate professor of history and American studies! Cornell University. Klappentext 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. In this title! the author argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten landscape tradition that has much to teach us in our current moment of environmental crisis. Zusammenfassung 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. In this title! the author argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten landscape tradition that has much to teach us in our current moment of environmental crisis.

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Aaron Sachs is associate professor of history and American studies, Cornell University. He is author of The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism.

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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. In this title, the author argues that American cemeteries embody a forgotten landscape tradition that has much to teach us in our current moment of environmental crisis.