Author: Blake A. Harrison
Publisher:
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Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Tourism and the Reworking of Rural Vermont, 1880s-1970s
Author: Blake A. Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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The View from Vermont
Author: Blake A. Harrison
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584655916
Category : Rural tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
With its small native population, proximity to major metropolitan areas, and bucolic rural beauty, Vermont was fated to be a tourist mecca, forever associated in the popular imagination with maple syrup, fall colors, and ski bunnies. Tourism, for good and ill, has always been the decisive factor in the conception of rural Vermont. What is surprising, however, is the degree to which we have accepted this notion of rural Vermont as a somehow timeless entity. Blake Harrison's rich and rewarding study instead presents the construction of Vermont's landscape as a complex and ever-changing dynamic informed by progressive, modernist, and reformist thought, competing views of economic expansion, rural and urban prejudice and social exclusion, and (more recently) by land use planning and environmentalism. This broad-based study includes the early history of Vermont tourism, the concomitant abandonment of farms with the rise of the summer home, the creation of an "unspoiled" Vermont (from billboards, at least), the impact of Vermont's ski industry on tradition-bound tourism, and later efforts to legislate growth and protect an increasingly static ideal of a rural Vermont.While grounded within a specific Vermont view, Harrison has much to contribute to broader studies of rural places, tourism, and landscapes in American culture. His analysis of how physical landscapes affect and are affected by our imagined landscape, and the insight afforded by his juxtaposition of leisure and labor, will deeply inform our understanding of rural tourist landscapes for years to come. This is a truly interdisciplinary work that will satisfy and challenge historians and geographers alike.
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584655916
Category : Rural tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
With its small native population, proximity to major metropolitan areas, and bucolic rural beauty, Vermont was fated to be a tourist mecca, forever associated in the popular imagination with maple syrup, fall colors, and ski bunnies. Tourism, for good and ill, has always been the decisive factor in the conception of rural Vermont. What is surprising, however, is the degree to which we have accepted this notion of rural Vermont as a somehow timeless entity. Blake Harrison's rich and rewarding study instead presents the construction of Vermont's landscape as a complex and ever-changing dynamic informed by progressive, modernist, and reformist thought, competing views of economic expansion, rural and urban prejudice and social exclusion, and (more recently) by land use planning and environmentalism. This broad-based study includes the early history of Vermont tourism, the concomitant abandonment of farms with the rise of the summer home, the creation of an "unspoiled" Vermont (from billboards, at least), the impact of Vermont's ski industry on tradition-bound tourism, and later efforts to legislate growth and protect an increasingly static ideal of a rural Vermont.While grounded within a specific Vermont view, Harrison has much to contribute to broader studies of rural places, tourism, and landscapes in American culture. His analysis of how physical landscapes affect and are affected by our imagined landscape, and the insight afforded by his juxtaposition of leisure and labor, will deeply inform our understanding of rural tourist landscapes for years to come. This is a truly interdisciplinary work that will satisfy and challenge historians and geographers alike.
Vermont History
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Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Guide to Geography Programs in North America
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
America, History and Life
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
To Heal the Earth
Author: Ian L. McHarg
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"A valuable cache of McHarg's writings produced between the 1950s and the 1990s, providing a larger framework and a new perspective on the growth and development of his key ideas promoting the design of human settlements should be based on ecological principles."--NHBS Environment Bookstore.
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ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
"A valuable cache of McHarg's writings produced between the 1950s and the 1990s, providing a larger framework and a new perspective on the growth and development of his key ideas promoting the design of human settlements should be based on ecological principles."--NHBS Environment Bookstore.
Quest for Life
Author: Yossi Turner
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN: 164469378X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
A.D. Gordon was one of the most interesting and original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Quest for Life presents Gordon’s philosophy, which was developed in Hebrew at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the English reading public. It discusses the role played by the early Land of Israel pioneering labor community in the development of his thought, and offers a new understanding of its major themes, including: the relation of humanity to nature, human freedom, ethnicity, religion, and ethics. In addition, the book discusses the repercussions of Gordon’s thought with respect to contemporary civilization while suggesting its implicit ‘quest for life’ as the basis for a re-evaluation of such topics as the meaning of human life, Jewish peoplehood and the idea of a Jewish homeland.
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
ISBN: 164469378X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
A.D. Gordon was one of the most interesting and original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Quest for Life presents Gordon’s philosophy, which was developed in Hebrew at the beginning of the twentieth century, to the English reading public. It discusses the role played by the early Land of Israel pioneering labor community in the development of his thought, and offers a new understanding of its major themes, including: the relation of humanity to nature, human freedom, ethnicity, religion, and ethics. In addition, the book discusses the repercussions of Gordon’s thought with respect to contemporary civilization while suggesting its implicit ‘quest for life’ as the basis for a re-evaluation of such topics as the meaning of human life, Jewish peoplehood and the idea of a Jewish homeland.
A History of African Americans of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore
Author: Carole C. Marks
Publisher: Delaware Heritage Press
ISBN: 9780924117121
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: Delaware Heritage Press
ISBN: 9780924117121
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Historic Lighthouse Preservation Handbook
Author:
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description