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MARC recordNature's state: imagining Alaska as the last frontier / Susan Kollin.
| Title: | Nature's state: imagining Alaska as the last frontier / Susan Kollin. |
| Author(s): | Kollin, Susan. |
| Date: | 2001. |
| Publisher: | Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press |
| Abstract: | Examination of what lies behind myth of Alaska as America's 'last frontier', tracing how this apparently marginal space has in fact functioned to alleviate larger social anxieties about nature, ethnicity, and national identity. Claims that Alaska has functioned as a 'contested geography' in nation's spatial imagination. |
| Keywords: | 82 -- Literature. 113/119 -- Attitudes to nature. 502 -- Environmental issues. 504.06 -- Environmental protection. 712.23 -- National parks. F -- Biological sciences. (*49) -- Alaska. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*49) : 82 |
| ISBN: | 080784974X |
| SPRI record no.: | 157914 |
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