Essays by revisionist historians, scientists, and cultural critics explore the connection between nature and American culture, analyzing how it is packaged and presented at places such as Sea World and the Nature Company stores A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics. List of Illustrations 9(2) The Albums 11(2) Acknowledgments 13(2) Contributors 15(4) Foreword to the Paperback Edition 19(4) BEGINNINGS Introduction: In Search of Nature 23(46) William Cronon PARADISE LOST AND FOUND 69(102) The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature 69(22) William Cronon Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted 91(23) Anne Whiston Spirn Amazonia as Edenic Narrative 114(18) Candace Slater Reinventing Eden: Western Culture as a Recovery Narrative 132(39) Carolyn Merchant AT WORK AND PLAY 171(62) Are You an Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living?: Work and Nature 171(15) Richard White Looking for Nature at the Mall: A Field Guide to the Nature Company 186(18) Jennifer Price Touch the Magic 204(29) Susan G. Davis CONTESTED TERRAINS 233(146) Ecological Fragmentation in the Fifties 233(23) Michael G. Barbour On the Search for a Root Cause: Essentialist Tendencies in Environmental Discourse 256(13) Jeffrey C. Ellis Whose Nature? The Contested Moral Terrain of Ancient Forests 269(29) James D. Proctor Nature as Community: The Convergence of Environment and Social Justice 298(23) Giovanna Di Chiro Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture: It's All in the Family: Biological Kinship Categories in the Twentieth-Century United States 321(58) Donna J. Haraway COMMON PLACES 379(68) Reinventing Common Nature: Yosemite and Mount Rushmore--A Meandering Tale of a Double Nature 379(30) Kenneth R. Olwig Simulated Nature and Natural Simulations: Rethinking the Relation between the Beholder and the World 409(17) N. Katherine Hayles Toward a Philosophy of Nature 426(21) Robert P. Harrison PARTINGS Toward a Conclusion 447(14) On the Nature of Nature: An Eclectic Reading List 461(16) Notes 477(70) Index 547