Making Mountains
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New in Paperback--For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein. This collaboration has had environmental, economic, and cultural consequences.--David Stradling is associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati.
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David Stradling is associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati. His focus is the intersection of urban and environmental history. He is author of Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers, and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951 and editor of Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classical Texts.
Content
Foreword
Preface: The Haynes Family of Haynes Hollow
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Types of the Permanent and Unchanging
1) A Natural Resource
2) Envisioning Mountains
3) The Mountain Hotels
4) Making Wilderness
5) Mountain Water
6) Moving Mountains
7) A Suburb of New York
Epilogue: Whose Woods These Are
Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index
