Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy

Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing, foraging, and timber cutting in the newly created parks. Jacoby reassesses the nature of these "crimes" and provides a rich portrait of rural people and their relationship with the natural world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 12/13/2013
ISBN: 9780060746889
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.34w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 122
New York Review of Books 08/11/2005 pg. 26