Fleeting Moments: Nature and Culture in American History

by Gunther Barth

Book Overview

The tension between nature and culture, which accompanies the rise of any large society, has become a subject of great concern in our time. In this compelling study, Gunther Barth, acclaimed author of City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth-Century America, identifies fleeting moments of concord between nature and culture in the course of American history. During the search for the Wilderness Passage, the progress of the Lewis and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195062965
• ISBN13: 9780195062960
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"