| Contents Notes |
The ecology of order and chaos / Donald Worster -- The theoretical structure of ecological revolutions / Carolyn Merchant -- The trouble with wilderness, or, getting back to the wrong nature / William Cronon -- The earliest cultural landscapes of England / I.G. Simmons -- Landschaft and linearity : two archetypes of landscape / John R. Stilgoe -- Environmental change in colonial New Mexico / Robert MacCameron -- From conservation to environment : environmental politics in the United States since World War II / Samuel P. Hays -- The evolution of public environmental policy : the case of "no-significant deterioration" / Richard H.K. Vietor -- Reconstructing environmentalism : complex movements, diverse roots / Robert Gottlieb -- Searching for a "sink" for an industrial waste / Joel A. Tarr -- Personal boundaries in the urban environment : the legal attack on noise, 1865-1930 / Raymond W. Smilor -- Equity, eco-racism, and environmental history / Martin J. Melosi -- Rice, water, and power : landscapes of domination and resistance in the lowcountry, 1790-1880 / Mart A. Stewart -- "Damned at both ends and cursed in the middle" : the "flowage" of the Concord River meadows, 1798-1862 / Brian Donahue -- Irrigation, water rights, and the betrayal of Indian allotment / Donald J. Pisani -- Biotic change in nineteenth-century New Zealand / Alfred W. Crosby -- Australian nature, European culture : Anglo settlers in Australia / Thomas R. Dunlap -- Nataraja : India's cycle of fire / Stephen J. Pyne. Covering a broad array of topics and reflecting the continuing diversity within the field of environmental history, Out of the Woods begins with three theoretical pieces by William Cronon, Carolyn Merchant, and Donald Worster probing the assumptions that underlie the words and ideas historians use to analyze human interaction with the physical world. One of these - the concept of place - is the subject of a second group of essays. The political context is picked up in the third section, followed by a selection of some of the journal's most recent contributions discussing the intersection between urban and environmental history. Water's role in defining the contours of the human and natural landscape in undeniable and forms the focus of the fifth section. Finally, the global character of environmental issues emerges in three compelling articles by Alfred Crosby, Thomas Dunlap, and Stephen Pyne. Of interest to a wide range of scholars in environmental history, law, and politics, Out of the Woods is intended as a reader for course use and a benchmark for the field of environmental history as it continues to develop into the next century. |
