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RECORD NUMBER: 5 OF 11Main Title | Nature's nation : an environmental history of the United States / | |||||||||||
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Author | Opie, John, | |||||||||||
Publisher | Harcourt Brace College Publishers, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1998 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 38950531 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 0155002198; 9780155002197 | |||||||||||
Subjects | United States--Environmental conditions--History ; Environmental policy--United States--History ; Ecology ; Historische Umweltforschung--(DE-588)4291560-0 ; Umwelt--(DE-588)4061616-2 ; Umweltpolitik--(DE-588)4078523-3 ; USA--(DE-588)4078704-7 | |||||||||||
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Collation | xxii, 517 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Notes | "O strange new wolrd!" -- World we have lost : people of the land -- Federal geography -- When the United States was an undeveloped country -- Unifying American space -- Romantic America and utopianism : laying claim to paradise -- Determining America's environmental future : the rush to industrialize -- Reshaping the nation : the built environment and public works -- Environmental costs of industrial America : cities and landscapes in trouble -- From nature's water to public works water : America becomes a hydraulic civilization -- Hitting on the wall : environmental limits in Appalachia and on the High Plains. Recovering "original America" : the wilderness movement -- Environmentalism enters the American mainstream : environmental science, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, and public awareness -- Risk and regulation : environmentalism enters the modern era -- Into the twenty-first century : the United States and the global environment. Nature's Nation examines our consumer-based industrial and urban society and notes the heavy price paid to create this by placing the political, economic, social and cultural development of the U.S within an environmental framework. |