Billionaire Wilderness : : The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West / / Justin Farrell.
How rich people use nature to enhance their status, find rural salvation, and resolve the complex predicaments in their livesBillionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the ultra-wealthy, showing how today's richest people are using the natural environment to solve the existe...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 23 b/w illus. 2 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Setting Off into the Wilderness
- PART I. HOW WE GOT HERE AND WHAT IT FEELS LIKE
- 1. New Nation of the Ultra-Wealthy
- 2. Mount Billionaire
- PART II. USING NATURE TO SOLVE ECONOMIC DILEMMAS
- Introduction
- 3. Compensation Conservation
- 4. Connoisseur Conservation
- 5. Gilded Green Philanthropy
- 6. Moneyfest Destiny
- PART III. USING RURAL PEOPLE TO SOLVE SOCIAL DILEMMAS
- Introduction
- 7. Becoming Rural Poor, Naturally
- 8. Guilt Numbed
- PART IV. ULTRA-WEALTH THROUGH THE EYES OF THE WORKING POOR
- Introduction
- 9. No Time for Judgment
- 10. Cracking the Veneer
- Epilogue: The Future of Wealth and the West
- Appendix: Methodological Notes
- Notes
- References
- Index