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- catalog abstract "Peter J. Schmitt describes the many ways in which America's urban middle class became involved with nature from the turn of the century to shortly after World War I, and he assesses the influence of the "Arcadian myth" on American culture. With sympathy and gently irony, he surveys the manifestations of the American love affair with the country: summer camps, the beginnings of wildlife protection and the conservation crusade, landscaped cemeteries, "Christian ornithology", and wilderness novels. The Arcadian drive reflected urban values, as the city-dweller sought virtue in nature. Landscape gardening, country clubs, national parks, and scenic turnoffs imposed the industrial ethic of order, neatness, and regularity on natural landscapes. Nature study and anthropomorphic animal stories taught moral values to children.".
- catalog contributor b2740157.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization 1865-1918.".
- catalog created "1990, c1969.".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "1990, c1969.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1990, c1969.".
- catalog description "Peter J. Schmitt describes the many ways in which America's urban middle class became involved with nature from the turn of the century to shortly after World War I, and he assesses the influence of the "Arcadian myth" on American culture. With sympathy and gently irony, he surveys the manifestations of the American love affair with the country: summer camps, the beginnings of wildlife protection and the conservation crusade, landscaped cemeteries, "Christian ornithology", and wilderness novels. The Arcadian drive reflected urban values, as the city-dweller sought virtue in nature. Landscape gardening, country clubs, national parks, and scenic turnoffs imposed the industrial ethic of order, neatness, and regularity on natural landscapes. Nature study and anthropomorphic animal stories taught moral values to children.".
- catalog description "Selected readings since 1969: p. 223-227.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 236 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Back to nature.".
- catalog identifier "0801840139 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Back to nature.".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "1990, c1969.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Back to nature.".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization 1865-1918.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "973 20".
- catalog subject "E169.1 .S343 1990".
- catalog subject "Human beings Effect of environment on United States History.".
- catalog subject "Landscape assessment United States History.".
- catalog subject "Nature in literature.".
- catalog title "Back to nature : the Arcadian myth in urban America / Peter J. Schmitt ; foreword by John R. Stilgoe.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".