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A Greene Country Towne : Philadelphia's Ecology in the Cultural Imagination / ed. by Alan C. Braddock, Laura Turner Igoe.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) : 45 illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780271078946
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.7609748/11 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Ink and Paper, Clamshells and Leather -- 2 "Processes of Nature and Art" -- 3 Mapping The Quaker City's Queer Ecology -- 4 Visualizing Urban Nature in Fairmount Park -- 5 Netted Together -- 6 Expansive Exhibitions -- 7 "Our Yard Looks Something like a Zoological Garden" -- 8 "A Thorough Study of Causes" -- 9 Exhibiting Philadelphia's Vital Center -- 10 "Entertainment for All of the Senses" -- 11 "The water flows beneath it still . . ." -- 12 Remapping Philadelphia's Postindustrial Terrain -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: An unconventional history of Philadelphia that operates at the threshold of cultural and environmental studies, A Greene Country Towne expands the meaning of community beyond people to encompass nonhuman beings, things, and forces.By examining a diverse range of cultural acts and material objects created in Philadelphia-from Native American artifacts, early stoves, and literary works to public parks, photographs, and paintings-through the lens of new materialism, the essays in A Greene Country Towne ask us to consider an urban environmental history in which humans are not the only protagonists. This collection reimagines the city as a system of constantly evolving constituents and agencies that have interacted over time, a system powerfully captured by Philadelphia artists, writers, architects, and planners since the seventeenth century. In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Maria Farland, Nate Gabriel, Andrea L. M. Hansen, Scott Hicks, Michael Dean Mackintosh, Amy E. Menzer, Stephen Nepa, John Ott, Sue Ann Prince, and Mary I. Unger.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Ink and Paper, Clamshells and Leather -- 2 "Processes of Nature and Art" -- 3 Mapping The Quaker City's Queer Ecology -- 4 Visualizing Urban Nature in Fairmount Park -- 5 Netted Together -- 6 Expansive Exhibitions -- 7 "Our Yard Looks Something like a Zoological Garden" -- 8 "A Thorough Study of Causes" -- 9 Exhibiting Philadelphia's Vital Center -- 10 "Entertainment for All of the Senses" -- 11 "The water flows beneath it still . . ." -- 12 Remapping Philadelphia's Postindustrial Terrain -- Contributors -- Index

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An unconventional history of Philadelphia that operates at the threshold of cultural and environmental studies, A Greene Country Towne expands the meaning of community beyond people to encompass nonhuman beings, things, and forces.By examining a diverse range of cultural acts and material objects created in Philadelphia-from Native American artifacts, early stoves, and literary works to public parks, photographs, and paintings-through the lens of new materialism, the essays in A Greene Country Towne ask us to consider an urban environmental history in which humans are not the only protagonists. This collection reimagines the city as a system of constantly evolving constituents and agencies that have interacted over time, a system powerfully captured by Philadelphia artists, writers, architects, and planners since the seventeenth century. In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Maria Farland, Nate Gabriel, Andrea L. M. Hansen, Scott Hicks, Michael Dean Mackintosh, Amy E. Menzer, Stephen Nepa, John Ott, Sue Ann Prince, and Mary I. Unger.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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