Starting with a variety of nineteenth-century photographs, the authors have provided over fifty comparative photographs representing a visual document of the evolving landscape within the Tahoe basin. Lake Tahoe attracted tourists in droves in the late nineteenth century, but the logging industry wrought extensive damage to the land. 
Stopping Time confronts issues that have come to the fore in the late twentieth century--how we use the land, how we perceive the landscape, and what our perceptions mean for the future. The notion of an "ideal landscape" is explored in Elizabeth Raymond's informative essay, and how that notion itself has evolved since the nineteenth century.

Stopping Time: A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe

Arts & Photography

Goin, Peter

Raymond, C. Elizabeth

Blesse, Robert E.

Photography & Video

University of New Mexico Press

George Wingfield was a major figure in Nevada history in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his legacy is felt throughout the state even today. A political and economic titan, he made a fortune in the gold fields of central Nevada and promptly bought a chain of banks and several hotels. Wingfield was a Republican party leader who was also influential among Democrats. His power was legendary and prevailing, as demonstrated by the nearly universal belief that he ran a bipartisan political machine. For a number of years Wingfield was described, without exaggeration, as the owner and operator of the state of Nevada. Some have revered him as Nevada's benevolent "friend." Others have condemned him as a "sagebrush caesar," a man who politically dominated the state "as arbitrarily as the czar ruled Russia." Elizabeth Raymond's biography depicts the man and his times, from his humble birth in Arkansas in 1876 until his death in Reno in 1959. Wingfield became a significant power in Nevada partly because he remained in the state with all of his money instead of leaving as other millionaires had done. His authority became increasingly contentious as his political activities gradually reshaped the state to coincide with his personal tastes and economic interests. His investments gave him national prominence and tremendous influence in a sparsely populated state, where an economic reliance on divorce and gambling was controversial. Ultimately, both political opponents and outside observers came to resent Wingfield's control. By the 1930s, when his banks collapsed, Wingfield was so bitterly resented that all attempts to reorganize and reopen them failed. In 1935, defeated and shorn of political power, Wingfield declared personal bankruptcy. Although a second fabulous gold mine brought him another fortune, he never recovered the political dominance he enjoyed at the height of his career in the 1920s. When Wingfield died in 1959, he had the satisfaction of witnessing the flourishing tourism-based economy he had worked so hard to promote.

George Wingfield: Owner And Operator Of Nevada (Shepperson Series in History Humanities)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

University of Nevada Press

Banker, hotel owner, and political powerhouse George Wingfield (1876-1959) was one of the most significant figures in Nevada’s history. He was the prime force behind the start-up of its tourism and gambling industries. Raymond’s biography details every step of his remarkable climb to power, his staggering fall into bankruptcy, and a phoenix-like rise with a second fortune in gold mining. 

George Wingfield: Owner And Operator Of Nevada (Shepperson Series in Nevada History)

Historical

Most Americans today view mines as little more than ugly scars on the landscape, places with no connection to an American way of life. This creative new work will force many to rethink that impression: after an introduction to the history of mining in America, the authors present eight visual and historical essays about diverse sites across the nation, each of which reveals mines not simply as physical degradations but as evolving cultural artifacts of the American landscape.

Changing Mines in America

History

Center for American Places

Most Americans today view mines as little more than ugly scars on the landscape, places with no connection to an American way of life. This creative new work will force many to rethink that impression: after an introduction to the history of mining in America, the authors present eight visual and historical essays about diverse sites across the nation, each of which reveals mines not simply as physical degradations but as evolving cultural artifacts of the American landscape.

Under American New Historicism and British Cultural Studies, increasing attention has been paid to the idea of the nation as a discursive construct. 'Writing' Nation and 'Writing' Region in America looks at the various regionalisms in American culture as comparable constructs, and more specifically at 'writing region' as a subsidiary or counter-discourse to 'writing nation'. The various articles in the volume pursue this topic from a variety of (inter)disciplinary perspectives: historical, sociological, anthropological, geographical, cinematic, and literary.

Writing Nation and 'Writing' Region in America (European Contributions to American Studies, 33)

Literature & Fiction

Robin, Ron

Moore, Gene M.

Gray, Richard

Peacock, John

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia

Honnighausen, Lothar

Kugelmass, Jack

Bockting, Ineke

Bosscher, Doeko

Carafiol, Peter

Deutsch, James I.

Dorst, John

Eysberg, C. D.

Kaenel, Andre

Leenhouts, Anneke

Neinstein, Raymond L.

Oostrum, Duco Van

Romeyn, Esther

Scheele, Andrea

History & Criticism

Vu Univ Pr Amsterdam

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