Greene Country Towne

Alan C. Braddock is Ralph H. Wark Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies at the College of William and Mary as well as Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of Thomas Eakins and the Cultures of Modernity (2009) and coeditor of A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History (2009).Laura Turner Igoe is the Maher Curatorial Fellow of American Art at Harvard Art Museums. She is completing a book manuscript titled Art and Ecology in the Early Republic.

• Table of ContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Imagining Urban EcologyAlan C. Braddock and Laura Turner Igoe Chapter 1: Ink and Paper, Clamshells and Leather: Power, Environmental Perception, and Materiality in the Lenape-European Encounter at PhiladelphiaMichael Dean MackintoshChapter 2: “Processes of Nature and Art”: The Ecology of Charles Willson Peale’s Smoke-Eaters and StovesLaura Turner IgoeChapter 3: Mapping The Quaker City’s Queer EcologyMary I. UngerChapter 4: Visualizing Urban Nature in Fairmount Park: Economic Diversity, History, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century PhiladelphiaNate GabrielChapter 5: Netted Together: Eadweard Muybridge’s Animal Locomotion at the Dawn of Comparative BiologyJohn OttChapter 6: Expansive Exhibitions: Agriculture and Environment in Walt Whitman’s Camden-Philadelphia RegionMaria FarlandChapter 7: “Our yard looks something like a zoological garden”: Thomas Eakins, Philadelphia, and Domestic AnimalityAlan C. BraddockChapter 8: “A Thorough Study of Causes”: W.E.B. Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro, and Progressive Era MaterialityScott HicksChapter 9: Exhibiting Philadelphia’s Vital Center: Negotiating Environmental and Civic Reform in a Popular Postwar Planning VisionAmy E. MenzerChapter 10: “Entertainment for all of the senses”: Stephen Starr’s Experience Dining and the Revitalization of Postindustrial PhiladelphiaStephen Nepa Chapter 11: “The water flows beneath it still. . .”: Remembering and Re-imagining Philadelphia’s Old Dock CreekSue Ann PrinceChapter 12: Remapping Philadelphia’s Post-Industrial Terrain: A Network in FluxAndrea HansenNotesIndex

“Performing remarkable syntheses of environmental history and recent materialist cultural theory, the essays in A Greene Country Towne confirm Philadelphia’s centrality to the political, commercial, scientific, artistic, and natural history of the United States. A milestone in the multidisciplinary environmental humanities.”—Michael Ziser, author of Environmental Practice and Early American Literature