Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape
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Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape
Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape

Big Sur: The Making of a Prized California Landscape

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Shelley Alden Brooks (Author)  

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Big Sur embodies much of what has defined California since the mid twentieth century. A remote, inaccessible, and undeveloped pastoral landscape until 1937, Big Sur quickly became a cultural symbol of California and the West, as well as a home to the ultra-wealthy. This transformation was due in part to writers and artists such as Robinson Jeffers and Ansel Adams, who created an enduring mystique for this coastline. But Big Sur's prized coastline is also the product of the pioneering efforts of residents and Monterey County officials who forged a collaborative public/private preservation model for Big Sur that foreshadowed the shape of California coastal preservation in the twenty-first century. Big Sur's well-preserved vistas and high-end real estate situate this coastline between American ideals of development and the wild. It is a space that challenges the way most Americans think of nature, its relationship to people, and what in fact makes a place "wild." This book highlights today's complex and ambiguous intersections of class, the environment, and economic development through the lens of an iconic California landscape. 25
Shelley Alden Brooks teaches Twentieth-Century U.S., California, and Environmental History at the University of California, Davis. She also works for the California History-Social Science Project and serves on the statewide Environmental Literacy Steering Committee.
  • Contributor: Shelley Alden Brooks
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • ISBN13: 9780520294417
  • Number of Pages: 280
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x23mm
  • Packaged Weight: 544
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Release Date: 2017-12-05
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Shelley Alden Brooks teaches Twentieth-Century U.S., California, and Environmental History at the University of California, Davis. She also works for the California History-Social Science Project and serves on the statewide Environmental Literacy Steering Committee.

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