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NATURAL & BUILT ENVIRONMENT PREP: GREG ROZSA
FIRST: PRECIS
A.for each individual book, write up a prcis (2-3 pages max) as
soon as you finish each reading:
1) formal citation,2) what is the authors thesis (ieall!
ientif!ing su"#ect specific thesis plus a "roa$eep thesis)
3) what %in or t!pe(s) of &'A'* e+ience are in use
) metho of e+ience collection: how i the author$scholar ientif!
an collect their e+ience) metho of anal!sis: how i the
author$scholar sort through or otherwise etermine what the!thin%
the meaning of their primar! e+ience is
/) argument structure: how oes the author organi0e their "oo% to
ma%e their case
) oneaitional page (A) of ranom uotes !ou li%e
THEN: WRITE-UPS
after!ou ha+e !our precis done for all books in a
grouping,please prouce TWO write-!" (rough raft$e+en s%etch writing
o%) 3- pages each :
one #or Met$o%" !re! 4 one #or Hi"tori'( !re!) re"!on%in* to t$e
+e"tion" ,e(ow5ach writeup response must address the reading clump
of books together (in comparison an$orin ialogue with one another)
so that !ou respon to each set of uestions with an informal
essa!
that integrates the reaings rather than answering them 6"oo% "!
"oo%.7
An8yes, you should include things youve likely already stated in
your prcis.
METHO.S WRITE-UP
H ow $'/e n'tr'( 'n% ,i(t en/iron0ent" ,een "t%ie%1
Anal!0e the theoretical/ conceptual commitmentsas well as the
evidentiary choicesan themethodological choicesthat ha+e guie
scholarl! stuies of natural an "uilt en+ironments in
America. n !our comparison, explicitly address the following for
each scholar/each book:
9hat primar! e+ience was a+aila"le an useful to each scholar for
their research su"#ect$topicow i each scholar$author go a"out
ientif!ing, collecting, an anal!0ing their primar! e+ience
;oes the scholar ac%nowlege other a+aila"le primar! e+ience that
the! ga+e limite attention to
or ecie not to stu! an, againfor each
book, what o !ou thin% is the most significant limitation or
challengein oing so
HISTORICAL CHANGE2CONTINUIT3 WRITE-UP
Co0!'re2ontr'"t 4or re'%in*") '%%re""in* e'$ o# t$e #o((owin*
,ro'% +e"tion":
ow ha+e ifferent groups of Americans use natural an$or "uilt
en+ironments as a meansof asserting, altering, or resisting
particular ientities (ie: race, class, ethnicit!, gener,
region).
ow ha+e specific natural en+ironments or specific "uilt
en+ironments "een effecti+e in
representing or reinforcing unerstanings of specific
social-historical circumstances>an how
ha+e the! "een shape "! or contri"ute to larger cultural "eliefs
an +aluesminimum discussion: one instance for each book!
ow has broadhistorical change(s) in the larger cultural
contextha+e impacte the health,
sustaina"ilit!, an$or ecline of specific en+ironmentsminimum
discussion: one instance of broad historical change " impact for
each book!
5W$en %one #or e'$ re'%in* (0!6e0'i( 0e 4or %o0ent" & t$en
we7(( 0eet2%i"""5
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REA.ING LIST2BOO8 GROUPINGS: GREG ROZSA
READINGS GROUP A
#1 Michael Lewis, ed. American Wilderness: A New History. New
York: Oxford Univ Press, 2007.
#2 Frieda Knobloch. The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as
Colonization in the American West.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
READINGS GROUP B
#1 William Cronon. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and
the Ecology of New England.
New York: Hill and Wang, 2003.
#2 Gabrielle Lanier. The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic:
Architecture, Landscape, &
Regional Identity Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,
2005
READINGS GROUP C
#1 Patricia Nelson Limerick. The Legacy of Conquest:The Unbroken
Past of the American West.
NewYork: W. W. Norton, 1987; new edition, 2006.
#2 Donald Worster.Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s.
NY: Oxford Univ Press, 1979.
#3 Kai Erikson. Everything in its Path:Destruction of Community
in the Buffalo Creek Flood.New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976.
READINGS GROUP D
#1 Jane Jacobs. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New
York: Random House, 1961
#2 Thomas Sugrue. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and
Inequality in Postwar Detroit.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
And
You are welcome to read selectively from Foote Kenneth Footes
Shadowed Ground and use/apply as you wish :)
Kenneth E. Foote. Shadowed Ground:Americas Landscapes of Tragedy
and Violence.
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997.
