American Environmental History

Herausgeber: Warren, Louis S.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This compilation of seminal essays introduces students to the most exciting scholarship and writing on the environmental history in the United States. With primary documents that illustrate the conditions, perception, and influences of environmental issues from the pre-Columbian era to the present, the book invites students to analyze not only the connections between people and nature, but popular ideas of the environment in American history. Subjects include the changing American landscape, virgin soil epidemics and biological invasions, the impact of colonialism and industrial development, conservation, and the environmental movement and the backlash against it. An editorial introduction and headnotes for each chapter add scholarly value to the readings and documents. Students and instructors of American environmental history will find this an ideal collection for their courses and research.

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Readers in Ame
• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 736g
• ISBN-13: 9780631228639
• ISBN-10: 0631228632
• Artikelnr.: 24272823

Autorenporträt

Louis S. Warren is Associate Professor of History and W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western US History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: What Is Environmental History?.

1. The Natures of Indian America before Columbus.

2. The Other Invaders: Deadly Diseases and ExtraordinaryAnimals.

3. Colonial Natures: Marketing The Countryside.

4. Forest and Plantation in Nineteenth-Century America.

5. Urban Nature and Urban Reforms.

6. Markets, and the Disappearing Bison.

7. The Many Uses of Conservation.

8. National Parks and The Trouble With Wilderness.

9. Something In The Wind: Radiation, Pesticides, and AirPollution.

10. Environmental Protection and The Environmental Movement.

11. Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice.

12. Backlash against the Environmental Movement.

13. Legacies.

Index.

Rezensionen

"All those interested in North America's environmentalhistory will treasure this volume for its trenchant commentary, itsjudicious selection of recent scholarship, and its illuminatingdocuments and images." Karl Jacoby, Brown University

"A skillfully edited, lively collection that examines theinterplay of culture, politics, and nature in the American past. Anexcellent choice for environmental history courses." Mark Fiege,Colorado State University