A Greene Country Towne
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A Greene Country Towne

Philadelphia’s Ecology in the Cultural Imagination

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A Greene Country Towne

Philadelphia’s Ecology in the Cultural Imagination

About this book

An unconventional history of Philadelphia that operates at the threshold of cultural and environmental studies, A Greene Country Towne expands the meaning of community beyond people to encompass nonhuman beings, things, and forces.

By examining a diverse range of cultural acts and material objects created in Philadelphia—from Native American artifacts, early stoves, and literary works to public parks, photographs, and paintings—through the lens of new materialism, the essays in A Greene Country Towne ask us to consider an urban environmental history in which humans are not the only protagonists. This collection reimagines the city as a system of constantly evolving constituents and agencies that have interacted over time, a system powerfully captured by Philadelphia artists, writers, architects, and planners since the seventeenth century.

In addition to the editors, contributors to this volume are Maria Farland, Nate Gabriel, Andrea L. M. Hansen, Scott Hicks, Michael Dean Mackintosh, Amy E. Menzer, Stephen Nepa, John Ott, Sue Ann Prince, and Mary I. Unger.

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Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Imagining Urban Ecology (Alan C. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe)
  7. Notes to Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: Ink and Paper, Clamshells and Leather: Power, Environmental Perception, and Materiality in the Lenape-European Encounter at Philadelphia (Michael Dean Mackintosh)
  9. Notes to Chapter 1
  10. Chapter 2: “Processes of Nature and Art: ”The Ecology of Charles Willson Peale’s Smoke-Eaters and Stoves (Laura Turner Igoe)
  11. Notes to Chapter 2
  12. Chapter 3: Mapping The Quaker City’s Queer Ecology (Mary I. Unger)
  13. Notes to Chapter 3
  14. Chapter 4: Visualizing Urban Nature in Fairmount Park: Economic Diversity, History, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (Nate Gabriel)
  15. Notes to Chapter 4
  16. Chapter 5: Netted Together: Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion at the Dawn of Comparative Biology (John Ott)
  17. Notes to Chapter 5
  18. Chapter 6: Expansive Exhibitions: Agriculture and Environment in Walt Whitman’s Camden-Philadelphia Region (Maria Farland)
  19. Notes to Chapter 6
  20. Chapter 7: “Our Yard Looks Something like a Zoological Garden”: Thomas Eakins, Philadelphia, and Domestic Animality (Alan C. Braddock)
  21. Notes to Chapter 7
  22. Chapter 8: “A Thorough Study of Causes”: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro, and Progressive Era Materiality (Scott Hicks)
  23. Notes to Chapter 8
  24. Chapter 9: Exhibiting Philadelphia’s Vital Center: Negotiating Environmental and Civic Reform in a Popular Postwar Planning Vision (Amy E. Menzer)
  25. Notes to Chapter 9
  26. Chapter 10: “Entertainment for All of the Senses”: Stephen Starr’s Experience Dining and the Revitalization of Postindustrial Philadelphia (Stephen Nepa)
  27. Notes to Chapter 10
  28. Chapter 11: “The water flows beneath it still . . .”: Remembering and Reimagining Philadelphia’s Old Dock Creek (Sue Ann Prince)
  29. Notes to Chapter 11
  30. Chapter 12: Remapping Philadelphia’s Postindustrial Terrain: A Network in Flux (Andrea L. M. Hansen)
  31. Notes to Chapter 12
  32. List of Contributors
  33. Index
  34. COVER Back