Gordon G. Whitney

From Coastal Wilderness to Fruited Plain

A History of Environmental Change in Temperate North America from 1500 to the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

Fascinating account of the landscape changes following European settlement of North America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9780521576581
• ISBN-10: 052157658X
• Artikelnr.: 21824115

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Conversion of English to metric units
US state abbreviations
Common and scientific names of trees mentioned in the text
Photographic essay illustrating the character and the demise of the pre-settlement vegetation of the Northeast and the Midwest
1. Introduction
2. Reconstructing the past
3. Nature imposes ...
4. The forest primeval
5. Preservers of the ecological balance wheel
6. European precedents
7. Assault upon the forest, part I: the farmer
8. Assault upon the forest, part II: the lumber industry
9. Assault upon the forest, part III: fuel-wood
10. Predatory agriculture
11. Grassland agriculture
12. Forest influences
13. A transported flora
14. An impoverished fauna
15. The legislated landscape
16. Conclusion
References
Index.