Brian Frehner, Kathleen A. Brosnan

Broschiertes Buch

The Greater Plains

Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories

Herausgeber: Frehner, Brian; Brosnan, Kathleen A

Beschreibung

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.  

Autor

Brian Frehner is an associate professor of history at University of Missouri–Kansas City. He is the author of Finding Oil: The Nature of Petroleum Geology, 1859–1920 (Nebraska, 2011), winner of the Hal K. Rothman Prize, and coeditor of Indians and Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest. Kathleen A. Brosnan is Paul and Doris Easton Travis Chair of History at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author or coeditor of a number of books, including City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago’s Environmental History and Mapping Nature across the Americas.      

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781496226471
• ISBN-10: 149622647X
• Artikelnr.: 60593744