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The republic of nature : an environmental history of the United States / Mark Fiege

Fiege, Mark [Verfasser]

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2012

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xii, 584 pages) : Illustrations, plans

Weyerhaeuser environmental books

Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-556) and index

978-0-295-80414-9 ; 0-295-80414-9 ; 978-0-295-99167-2

HD 470 HD 375 HD 370 NK 4600

 

USA  Humanökologie  Natur  Geschichte 

In The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred.