Format:
IX, 303 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
,
24 cm
ISBN:
1874267758
,
9781874267751
Content:
"Hunting with the camera": photography, animals and the technology of the chase in the Rocky Mountains / Karen Jones -- Hollywood in Africa 1947-62: imaginative construction and landscape realism / William Beinart and Dominique Schafer -- Livestock, identity and the social imagination in South Africa / Amy Halliday -- Building a scenic landscape: nature and history on the Columbia River Highway, 1913-1916 / Tyler A. Cornelius -- The hunted otter in Britain, 1830-1939 / Daniel Allen -- No tears for the crocodiles: representations of Nile crocodiles, and the extermination furore in Zululand, South Africa, from 1956-8 / Simon Pooley -- Science, "stars" and sustenance: the acquisition and display of animals at the Bristol Zoological Gardens, 1838-c. 1970 / Andrew J.P. Flack -- From poetry to politics: the romantic roots of the "German Forest" / Johannes Zechner -- Of trees and the political imagination in "neo-colonial" Madagascar / Karen Middleton -- On revolutionary dirt in Haiti / Lauren Derby -- Reshaping nature: underwater laboratories, ecology, and outer space in West Germany and the United States / Sven Asim Mesonovic
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
"Hunting with the camera": photography, animals and the technology of the chase in the Rocky Mountains / Karen JonesHollywood in Africa 1947-62: imaginative construction and landscape realism / William Beinart and Dominique Schafer -- Livestock, identity and the social imagination in South Africa / Amy Halliday -- Building a scenic landscape: nature and history on the Columbia River Highway, 1913-1916 / Tyler A. Cornelius -- The hunted otter in Britain, 1830-1939 / Daniel Allen -- No tears for the crocodiles: representations of Nile crocodiles, and the extermination furore in Zululand, South Africa, from 1956-8 / Simon Pooley -- Science, "stars" and sustenance: the acquisition and display of animals at the Bristol Zoological Gardens, 1838-c. 1970 / Andrew J.P. Flack -- From poetry to politics: the romantic roots of the "German Forest" / Johannes Zechner -- Of trees and the political imagination in "neo-colonial" Madagascar / Karen Middleton -- On revolutionary dirt in Haiti / Lauren Derby -- Reshaping nature: underwater laboratories, ecology, and outer space in West Germany and the United States / Sven Asim Mesonovic.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Natur
;
Tiere
;
Zivilisation
;
Naturgeschichte
;
Kultur
;
Konferenzschrift
