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000773399 1001_ $$aSachs, Aaron$$q(Aaron Jacob)
000773399 24510 $$aArcadian America$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe death and life of an environmental tradition /$$cAaron Sachs.
000773399 260__ $$aNew Haven :$$bYale University Press,$$c2013.
000773399 300__ $$axi, 484 p. :$$bill., map.
000773399 440_0 $$aNew directions in narrative history
000773399 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000773399 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000773399 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.
000773399 650_0 $$aCemeteries$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y19th century.
000773399 650_0 $$aCemeteries$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States.
000773399 650_0 $$aCemeteries$$xEnvironmental aspects$$zUnited States.
000773399 650_0 $$aArcadia in literature.
000773399 650_0 $$aArcadia in art.
000773399 650_0 $$aEnvironmentalism$$xSocial aspects$$zUnited States.
000773399 650_0 $$aEnvironmental responsibility$$zUnited States.
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