A companion to American environmental history [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910140616003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-54821-2; 1-78034-093-1; 9786612548215; 1-4051-9735-8; 1-4443-2361-X; 1-4443-2362-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (694 p.)
• Collana: Blackwell companions to American history
• Altri autori (Persone): SackmanDouglas Cazaux <1968->
• Disciplina: 333.720973
• Soggetti: Environmentalism - United States - History; Environmental policy - United States - History; Green movement - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A COMPANION TO AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I The Elements of Environmental History; 1 Paths Toward Home: Landmarks of the Field in Environmental History; 2 Air; 3 The Living Earth: History, Darwinian Evolution, and the Grasslands; 4 Fire; 5 Water; Part II Nature and the Construction of Society and Identity; 6 Race and US Environmental History; 7 Gender; 8 Class; 9 Body Counts: Tracking the Human Body Through Environmental History; Part III The Nature of American Culture; 10 From Wilderness to Hybrid Landscapes: The Cultural Turn in Environmental History 11 American Indian Environmental Relations; 12 Cultures of Nature: To ca. 1810; 13 Cultures of Nature: Nineteenth Century; 14 Cultures of Nature: Twentieth Century; 15 From Wilderness Prophets to Tool Freaks: Post-World War II Environmentalism; 16 The Black Box in the Garden: Consumers and the Environment; Part IV Contact Zones: Americans Conjoining the Natural World; 17 Flora; 18 Fauna: A Prospectus for Evolutionary History; 19 Water Development: ; The Plot Thickens; 20 Rich Crevices of Inquiry: Mining and Environmental History 21 Who Cares About Forests? How Forest History Matters; 22 Cultivating an Agro-Environmental History; 23 Oceans: Fusing the History of Science and Technology with Environmental History; 24 Cities and Suburbs; 25 Energy and Transportation; 26 The Global Ecological Reach of the United States: Exporting Capital and Importing Commodities; 27 Food; Part V Outside of the Grid: Place, Borders, and Scale; 28 Blinded by History: The Geographic Dimension of Environment and Society; 29 The Northeastern Pacific Basin: An Environmental Approach to Seascapes and Littoral Places 30 Earthlings: Evolution and Place in Environmental History; 31 "Most Fruitful Results": Transborder Approaches to Canadian-American Environmental History; 32 Seeing Beyond Our Borders: US and Non-US Historiographies; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A Companion to American Environmental History gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history.Provides a complete historiography of American environmental history Brings the field up-to-date to reflect the latest trends and encourages new directions for the field Includes the work of path-breaking environmental historians, from the founders of the field, to contributions from innovative young scholars Takes stock of the discipline through five topically themed parts, with essays