Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature Book

	List of Illustrations	11
	The Albums	13
	Acknowledgments	15
	Contributors	17
	Introduction: In Search of Nature	23
	The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature	69
	Constructing Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted	91
	Amazonia as Edenic Narrative	114
	Reinventing Eden: Western Culture as a Recovery Narrative	132
	"Are You an Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living?": Work and Nature	171
	Looking for Nature at the Mall: A Field Guide to the Nature Company	186
	"Touch the Magic"	204
	Ecological Fragmentation in the Fifties	233
	On the Search for a Root Cause: Essentialist Tendencies in Environmental Discourse	256
	Whose Nature? The Contested Moral Terrain of Ancient Forests	269
	Nature as Community: The Convergence of Environment and Social Justice	298
	Universal Donors in a Vampire Culture: It's All in the Family: Biological Kinship Categories in the Twentieth-Century United States	321
	Reinventing Common Nature: Yosemite and Mount Rushmore - A Meandering Tale of a Double Nature	379
	Simulated Nature and Natural Simulations: Rethinking the Relation between the Beholder and the World	409
	Toward a Philosophy of Nature	426
	Toward a Conclusion	447
	On the Nature of Nature: An Eclectic Reading List	461
	Notes	477
	Index	547