ISBN:
9780415808712
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (455 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Environment in American History : Nature and the Formation of the United States
DDC:
304.20973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
From pre-European contact to the present day, people living in what is now the United States have constantly manipulated their environment. The use of natural resources - animals, plants, minerals, water, and land - has produced both prosperity and destruction, reshaping the land and human responses to it. The Environment in American History is a clear and comprehensive account that vividly shows students how the environment played a defining role in the development of American society.Organized in thirteen chronological chapters, and extensively illustrated, the book covers themes including:N
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Faith in a Generous Land; 2 Pathogens and Plows in the Land of Plenty; 3 A Great Fur and Hide Marketplace; 4 A Great Farming Nation; 5 "A Newer Garden of Creation"; 6 Naturally Horrifying: Environment in the Civil War; 7 Western Lands of Wealth and Violence; 8 Conserving Resources, Saving Sacred Spaces, and Cleaning the Cities: America in the Conservation Era; 9 Restoring and Transforming the Land in the 1920s and 1930s; 10 Abundance and Terror: Americans in World War II
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Environmental Consensus in the Republic of Abundance12 Environmental Reform and Schism; 13 A Time of Environmental Contradictions; Epilogue: The Greatest Peril of Abundance; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
