Snow in America / Bernard Mergen.

Main entry:

Mergen, Bernard.

Title & Author:

Snow in America / Bernard Mergen.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.

Description:

xxi, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Early philosophies of snow -- Stalled magnificance -- Snowmen and snowmanship: Recreation in the snow -- Opening the snow frontier -- The names of the snows -- Ecology of the snow commons -- The modern minds of winter -- Ablation.

Summary:

In this first cultural history of snow, Bernard Mergen explores our ambivalent relationship with nature's crystalline gift. Drawing from works of art, poetry, literature, film, history, and public policy, the author demonstrates how Americans have loved, hated, measured, depicted, and frolicked in snow for over three hundred years, attaching to it a host of shifting meanings and metaphors.
Snow in America begins with the debate between Thomas Jefferson and Noah Webster over the nature of winter weather. Mergen's discussion encompasses the great storms of American history, the development of snow shovels and the evolution of snow management, the politics of snow removal, snowballs, snowmen, snow sculpture, avalanches, the evolution of ski resorts, the origins and development of snow measurement, and snow terminology.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1560987804 (alk. paper)
9781560987802 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Snow North America History.
Snow Environmental aspects North America History.
Snow.
Snow Environmental aspects.
Schnee.
North America.
Nordamerika

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192551
Call No.: ID QC929.S7.M44; ID:97-B3638
Status: Available

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