Screen LibraryNature's crossroads : the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota /
An interdisciplinary team of scholars aim to open new conversations about the environmental history of the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota, exploring the dispossession of the region's Native American peoples, the industrial and commercial centers, urban sprawl, and the culture residents inscr...
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University of Pittsburgh Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Pittsburgh, PA : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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History of the urban environment
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| Summary: |
An interdisciplinary team of scholars aim to open new conversations about the environmental history of the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota, exploring the dispossession of the region's Native American peoples, the industrial and commercial centers, urban sprawl, and the culture residents inscribed into the landscape, complete with all its tensions, disagreements, contradictions, prejudices, and social inequalities. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 397 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780822947387 0822947382 |
| Index Number: | GF13 |
| CLC: | X377.12 |
| Call Number: | X377.12/N285-1 |
| Contents: |
A Tale of Two Waterfronts: Commerce, Industry, and the Environmental Transformation of Minnesota's Twin Cities / Down to the Farm: Wheat Ecology and International Markets in Minnesota, 1850-1900 / Competing Hinterlands: Saint Paul, Madison, and the Landscape of Burnett County, Wisconsin / Upstream, Downstream: The Flooding of Anishinaabe Lands by Upper Mississippi Dams / Making Stumps and Fields: Working Environments in the Woods and on the Cutover, 1890s-1930s / "Follow the Arrows to the Arrowhead": The Environment of Tourism in the Interwar Years / Fountains of Life and Death: A History of the Minneapolis and Saint Paul Water Supply Systems / Urban Environmental History and Loring Park: How Cultural Views of Nature Influenced Recreational Design / "Awheel from Chicago to the Twin Cities": Legacies of Turn-of- the-Century Bicycle Paths in Minneapolis and Saint Paul / The Suburb of Minneapolis: Defining the City's "Urban" Form / The Campus as Watershed: Urban Sustainability and the Pedagogy of Place / Monumental Encounters: The Politics of History, Conservation, and the Reconstruction of Grand Portage, 1922-1958 / Pittsburgh's Colony in Saint Paul's Hinterland: Tensions over Environmentalism in Northeastern Minnesota's Iron Range / A House Divided: The Minnesota Experimental City and Competing Narratives of Conservation / Dissecting a Nation-Leading Legacy: The Minnesota Acid Rain Story / The Urban Roots of Militant Indian Protest: AIM's Origins in the Twin Cities, 1968-1973 / Radioactive Waste, Public Debate, and Environmental Justice at Prairie Island / Afterword: Minnesota's |