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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
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- ISBN
- 9780520251090
- Book Title
- Storming the Gates of Paradise : Landscapes for Politics
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Nature, Political Science
- Topic
- General, Ecology, American Government / General
- Item Weight
- 22.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 429 Pages
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise , an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.--Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today's street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the millennium--not just the deserts, skies, gardens, and wilderness areas that have long made up Solnit's subject matter, but the social landscape of democracy and repression, of borders, ruins, and protests. She ventures into territories as dark as prison and as sublime as a broad vista, revealing beauty in the harshest landscape and political struggle in the most apparently serene view. Her introduction sets the tone and the book's overarching themes as she describes Thoreau, leaving the jail cell where he had been confined for refusing to pay war taxes and proceeding directly to his favorite huckleberry patch. In this way she links pleasure to politics, brilliantly demonstrating that the path to paradise has often run through prison. These startling insights on current affairs, politics, culture, and history, always expressed in Solnit's pellucid and graceful prose, constantly revise our views of the otherwise ordinary and familiar. Illustrated throughout, Storming the Gates of Paradise represents recent developments in Solnit's thinking and offers the reader a panoramic world view enriched by her characteristically provocative, inspiring, and hopeful observations.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520251091
ISBN-13
9780520251090
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57208213
Product Key Features
Book Title
Storming the Gates of Paradise : Landscapes for Politics
Number of Pages
429 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Ecology, American Government / General
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Political Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
22.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
22
Lccn
2006-035367
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
304.20973
Lc Classification Number
Ja75.8.S65 2007
Table of Content
Introduction: Prisons and Paradises 1. Uneven Terrain: The West The Red Lands The Postmodern Old West, or the Precession of Cowboys and Indians The Struggle of Dawning Intelligence: Creating, Revising, and Recognizing Native American Monuments The Garden of Merging Paths 2. Borders and Crossers A Route in the Shape of a Question Thirty-Nine Steps Across the Border and Back Nonconforming Uses: Teddy Cruz on Both Sides of the Border 3. Trouble Below: Mining, Water, and Nuclear Waste The Price of Gold, the Value of Water Meanwhile Back at the Ranch Poison Pictures 4. Reaching for the Sky Excavating the Sky Drawing the Constellations Hugging the Shadows Justice by Moonlight 5. Landscapes of Resistance and Repression Jailbirds I Have Loved Fragments of the Future: The FTAA in Miami Making It Home: Travels outside the Fear Economy Mirror in the Street Liberation Conspiracies Sontag and Tsunami 6. Gardens and Wildernesses Every Corner Is Alive: Eliot Porter as an Environmentalist and an Artist The Botanical Circus, or Adventures in American Gardening A Murder of Ravens: On Globalized Species 7. Women's Place Tangled Banks and Clear-Cut Examples Seven Stepping Stones down the Primrose Path past Gender Other Daughters, Other American Revolutions 8. Infernal Museums California Comedy, or Surfing with Dante The Wal-Mart Biennale The Silence of the Lambswool Cardigans Locked Horns 9. City at the End of the World The Orbits of Earthly Bodies San Francisco: The Metamorphosis The Heart of the City The Ruins of Memory Gaping Questions Coda: The Pacific Seashell to Ear Acknowledgments Notes Permissions Photo Credits Index
Copyright Date
2007
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