{"product_id":"gentlemen-of-the-woods","title":"Gentlemen of the Woods","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781517912451\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Cloth over boards\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLumberjacks: the men, the myth, and the making of an American legend\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The folk hero Paul Bunyan, burly, bearded, wielding his big ax, stands astride the story of the upper Midwest-a manly symbol of the labor that cleared the vast north woods for the march of industrialization while somehow also maintaining an aura of pristine nature. This idea, celebrated in popular culture with songs and folktales, receives a long overdue and thoroughly revealing correction in \u003ci\u003eGentlemen of the Woods, \u003c\/i\u003ea cultural history of the life and lore of the real lumberjack and his true place in American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow recalled as heroes of wilderness and masculinity, lumberjacks in their own time were despised as amoral transients. Willa Hammitt Brown shows that nineteenth-century jacks defined their communities of itinerant workers by metrics of manhood that were abhorrent to the residents of the nearby Northwoods boomtowns, valuing risk-taking and skill rather than restraint and control. Reviewing songs, stories, and firsthand accounts from loggers, Brown brings to life the activities and experiences of the lumberjacks as they moved from camp to camp. She contrasts this view with the popular image cultivated by retreating lumber companies that had to sell off utterly barren land. This mythologized image glorified the lumberjack and evoked a kindly, flannel-wearing, naturalist hero.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong with its portrait of lumberjack life and its analysis of the creation of lumberjack myth, \u003ci\u003eGentlemen of the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e offers new insight into the intersections of race and social class in the logging enterprise, considering the actual and\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41506869182597,"sku":"PR402204","price":88.2,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/9781517912451_ayt6KKZ.original_TNXPTIMR8UKV.jpg?v=1769644250","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/gentlemen-of-the-woods","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}