Add this copy of Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills to cart. $18.00, very good condition, Sold by River House Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Antonio, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by University of Washington Press.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 336 p. Contains: Maps. Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books. Audience: General/trade. Hardcover Cloth 311 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition First printing 2008 with corresponding number line. Handsome blue boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear with undamaged corners. Some pencil markings in text. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear-a few stains, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. 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. Early on, the Catskills were an important source of natural resources. Later, when New York City needed to expand its water supply, engineers helped direct the city toward the Catskills, claiming that the mountains offered the purest and most cost-effective waters. By the 1960s, New York had created the great reservoir and aqueduct system in the mountains that now supplies the city with 90 percent of its water. The Catskills also served as a critical space in which the nation's ideas about nature evolved. Stradling describes the great influence writers and artists had upon urban residents-especially the painters of the Hudson River School, whose ideal landscapes created expectations about how rural America should appear. By the mid-1800s, urban residents had turned the Catskills into an important vacation ground, and by the late 1800s, the Catskills had become one of the premiere resort regions in the nation. In the mid-twentieth century, the older Catskill resort region was in steep decline, but the Jewish "Borscht Belt" in the southern Catskills was thriving. The automobile revitalized mountain tourism and residence, and increased the threat of suburbanization of the historic landscape. Throughout each of these significant incarnations, urban and rural residents worked in a rough collaboration, though not without conflict, to reshape the mountains and American ideas about rural landscapes and nature.
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
Add this copy of Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills to cart. $51.28, very good condition, Sold by Bestsellers Returns rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, HEREFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2007 by University of Washington Press.
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Very good. Bumped edges and book is warped Dirty marks to edge of pages Sun damaged dust jacket No.1 BESTSELLERS-great prices, friendly customer service-usually dispatched within 24 hrs.
Add this copy of Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills to cart. $68.51, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by University of Washington Press.
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Very good. Signed. Signed gift inscription from author David Stradling to "Eric" on title page, dated 4/26/09. Dust jacket shows some light shelf wear and edge scuffing. Very small circular sticker on back cover that has MM #35 written on it in red pen. Could probably be carefully removed without damaging the dust jacket.
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