Snow in America

MERGEN BERNARD

ISBN 10: 1560987804 / ISBN 13: 9781560987802

Published by Smithsonian, 1997

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Synopsis:

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.

Review: 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 bo th 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

Bibliographic Details

Title: Snow in America
Publisher: Smithsonian
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Acceptable