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A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia's Ecology in the Cultural Imagination

A Greene Country Towne: Philadelphia's Ecology in the Cultural Imagination

Braddock, Alan C.
Igoe, Laura Turner

Hardcover

Environmental StudiesGeneral World HistoryRegional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN10: 0271077131
ISBN13: 9780271077130
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Dec 21 2016
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 7.20 Depth: 10.30
Language: English

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.

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