| Main Title |
American environmental history |
| Other Authors |
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| Publisher |
Blackwell Pub., |
| Year Published |
2003 |
| OCLC Number |
49875308 |
| ISBN |
0631228632 (alk. paper) 0631228640 (pbk.) |
| Subjects |
Human ecology--United States--History ;
Nature--Effect of human beings on--United States ;
United States--Environmental conditions--History
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EIAM |
GF503.A445 2003 |
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Region 2 Library/New York,NY |
06/20/2003 |
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| Collation |
xvii, 359 p. : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents Notes |
Part 1. The natures of Indian America before Columbus. The pristine myth: the landscape of the Americas in 1492 / William M. Denevan. Documents -- Part 2. The other invaders: deadly diseases and extraordinary animals. Virgin soil epidemics / Alfred W. Crosby. Documents -- Part 3. Colonial natures: marketing the countryside. A world of fields and fences / William Cronon. Documents -- Part 4. Forest and plantation in nineteenth-century America. "Wasty ways": stories of American settlement / Alan Taylor. Documents ; Rice, water, and power: landscapes of domination and resistance in the lowcountry, 1790-1880 / Mart A. Stewart. Documents -- Part 5. Urban nature and urban reforms. From The cholera years: the United States in 1832, 1849, 1866 / Charles E. Rosenberg. Documents -- Part 6. Markets, nature, and the disappearing bison. Bison ecology and bison diplomacy redux: another look at the southern plains from 1800 to 1850 / Dan Flores. Documents -- Part 7. The many uses of conservation. Conservation, subsistence, and class at the birth of Superior National Forest / Benjamin Heber Johnson. Documents -- Part 8. National parks and the trouble with wilderness. The trouble with wilderness, or, getting back to the wrong nature / William Cronon. Documents -- Part 9. Something in the wind: radiation, pesticides, and air pollution. Reconstructing environmentalism: complex movements, diverse roots / Robert Gottlieb. Documents -- Part 10. Environmental protection and the environmental movement. Richard Nixon and the triumph of environmentalism / J. Brooks Flippen. Documents -- Part 11. Environmental racism and environmental justice. Troubled waters in Ecotopia: environmental racism in Portland, Oregon / Ellen Straud. Documents -- Part 12. Backlash against the environmental movement. Documents -- Part 13. Legacies. Documents. |
| Place Published |
Malden, MA : |
| PUB Date Free Form |
2003. |
| Series Title Traced |
Blackwell readers in American social and cultural history ; 12 |
| BIB Level |
m |
| Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
| LCCN |
2002008002 |
| OCLC Time Stamp |
20030618140105 |
| Language |
eng |
| Origin |
OCLC |
| Type |
CAT |
| OCLC Rec Leader |
02935cam 22003374a 45020 |
