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Drawing on American art, literature, history, and public policy, a unique cultural history of snow demonstrates that Americans' responses to snow have reflected their views of the environment as both ordered and chaotic. UP.
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Snow in America is likely to remain unsurpassed as a handbook for novelists wanting to set their stories in North America between November and March. -- The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, David Craig
Professor Mergen uses snow and responses to it as an illustration of both the practical and the emotional development of American character. Snow has changed from a moral resource encouraging endurance and ingenuity to a public nuisance to an ecological and economic resource. Poets have made it a metaphor for states ranging from euphoria to despair. This intelligent study is not ivory-tower theorizing. It deals firmly with street cleaning, the growth of the ski industry, water usage, winter carnivals, and even fashions in the making of snow forts and snowmen. It does all this well. -- The Atlantic Monthly, Phoebe-Lou Adams
Professor Mergen uses snow and responses to it as an illustration of both the practical and the emotional development of American character. Snow has changed from a moral resource encouraging endurance and ingenuity to a public nuisance to an ecological and economic resource. Poets have made it a metaphor for states ranging from euphoria to despair. This intelligent study is not ivory-tower theorizing. It deals firmly with street cleaning, the growth of the ski industry, water usage, winter carnivals, and even fashions in the making of snow forts and snowmen. It does all this well. -- The Atlantic Monthly, Phoebe-Lou Adams
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- PublisherSmithsonian
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1560987804
- ISBN 13 9781560987802
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages321
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