At the same time, we liked the alternative title, «Telling Tales: Stories and Legends in 19th - Century American Art»,
because it broadens the discussion, expanding it from matters of connoisseurship, patronage, and class to larger stories relating to egalitarianism and education,
social transformation and conflict, and idealism and reality.
But I also wrote it
because climate change can be a catalyst for a range of very different and far less desirable forms of
social, political, and economic
transformation.