ISBN:
1496227077
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9781496227072
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
DDC:
304.20978
Keywords:
Human ecology
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Natural history
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NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Plains & Prairies
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Natural history
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Human ecology
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History
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Great Plains History
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Great Plains
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- 1. Before the Horse -- 2. Travois Trails -- 3. Bison Hunters and Prairie Fires -- 4. To Know the Story behind It -- Part 2 -- 5. Kinscapes and the Buffalo Chase -- 6. Fauna and Flux on the Plains' Edge -- 7. Bison and Bookkeeping -- 8. An Uncommon Nuisance -- Part 3 -- 9. Measuring Expertise -- 10. A "Plow to Save the Plains" -- 11. From Wheat to Wheaties -- 12. "Nature Rarely Establishes Sharp Boundaries" -- Part 4 -- 13. Energy Heartland
Abstract:
14. Places of Overburden -- 15. Encountering Oil Cultures in a Prairie Town -- 16. Blows Like Hell -- Contributors -- Index
Abstract:
"The Greater Plains tells a new story of a region, stretching from the state of Texas to the province of Alberta, where the environments are as varied as the myriad ways people have inhabited them. These innovative essays document a complicated history of human interactions with a sometimes plentiful and sometimes foreboding landscape, from the Native Americans who first shaped the prairies with fire to twentieth-century oil regimes whose pipelines linked the region to the world.The Greater Plains moves beyond the narrative of ecological desperation that too often defines the region in scholarly works and in popular imagination. Using the lenses of grasses, animals, water, and energy, the contributors reveal tales of human adaptation through technologies ranging from the travois to bookkeeping systems and hybrid wheat. Transnational in its focus and interdisciplinary in its scholarship, The Greater Plains brings together leading historians, geographers, anthropologists, and archaeologists to chronicle a past rich with paradoxical successes and failures, conflicts and cooperation, but also continual adaptation to the challenging and ever-shifting environmental conditions of the North American heartland. "--
Abstract:
"This collection of essays represents an attempt to move beyond degradation and exploitation as the defining ecological narratives of the Great Plains by examining the region through the interrelated themes of water, grasses, animals, and energy"--
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