The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462122003321
• Autore: Merchant Carolyn
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Columbia University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (469 p.)
• Collana: Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
• Disciplina: 304.2; 333.70973
• Soggetti: Human ecology -- United States -- History; Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- History; United States -- Environmental conditions; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: TOPICS AND THEMES; 1. The American Environment and Native-European Encounters, 1000-1875; The Physical Environment and Natural Resources; Native Americans and the Land; Pueblo Indians and the Southwest; The Pueblo Indians and Spanish Settlement of the Southwest; Micmac Indians and French Settlement in the Northeast; Plains Indians and the Westward Movement; The European Transformation of the Plains; The Ecological Indian; Conclusion; 2. The New England Wilderness Transformed, 1600-1850; The New England Forest and Indian Land UseThe Settlement of New England; Colonial Land Use; Marketing the Forest; The Forest Economy; Mind, Labor, and Nature; The Idea of Wilderness; Conclusion; 3. The Tobacco and Cotton South, 1600-1900; The Chesapeake Environment and Indian-European Relations; Tobacco Cultivation; Slavery and Southern Agriculture; Soil Exhaustion in the Tobacco South; The Cotton South; Environment and Society in the Cotton South; Cotton Production; Post-Civil War Sharecropping; The Impact of the Boll Weevil; Conclusion; 4. Nature and the Market Economy, 1750-1850; The Inland Economy and the EnvironmentLand Use in the Inland ; Economy; The Inland Economy and the Worldview of Its People; Market Farming; The Transportation and Market Revolutions; Nature and Ambivalence About the Market Economy; The Hudson River School of Painters; Artists and the Vanishing Indian; Conclusion; 5. Western Frontiers: The Settlement of California and the Great Plaines, 1820-1930; Westward Expansion and the Settlement of California; California Native Peoples and the Advent of Europeans; The Multicultural Character of the Gold Rush; Types of Gold Mining; Environmental Effects of Hydraulic MiningEnvironmental Change in the Sierras; European Settlement of the Great Plains; The Rancher's Frontier; The Farmer's Frontier; Narratives of Blacks and Women; The Dust Bowl of the 1930s; Conclusion; 6. Urban Environments, 1850-1960; Urbanization, Industry, and Energy; Industrial Cities and Labor; The City as Wilderness; Air Pollution; Garbage; Noise Pollution; Water Pollution; The Sanitary City; From City to Suburb; Minorities and Pollution; Conclusion; 7. Conservation and Preservation, 1785-1950; Colonial Land Policy; Federal Land Policy; Land Law in the Arid WestLands for Railroads and Education; The Conservation Movement; Reclamation and Water Law; The Preservation Movement; Creation of the National Parks; Conclusion; 8. Indian Land Policy, 1800-1990; Indian Land Treaties; Indian Removal; The Dawes Act; Indians and the Creation of the National Parks; The Winters Decision; The Indian New Deal and Civil Rights; Indian Lands and Environmental Regulation; Conclusion; 9. The Rise of Ecology, 1890-1990; Ernst Haeckel and the Origins of Ecology; Human Ecology; The Organismic Approach to Ecology; The Economic Approach to Ecology; The Influence of Chaos Theory
• Sommario/riassunto: How and why have Americans living at particular times and places used and transformed their environment? How have political systems dealt with conflicts over resources and conservation? This is the only major reference work to explore all the major themes and debates of the burgeoning field of environmental history. Humanity ́s relationship with the natural world is one of the oldest and newest topics in human history. The issue emerged as a distinct field of scholarship in the early 1970s and has been growing steadily ever since. The discipline ́s territory and sources are rich and varied

The Asian financial crisis : crisis, reform and recovery / / Shalendra D. Sharma

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910287936703321
• Autore: Sharma Shalendra D. <1958->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester University Press, 2003; Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018; ©2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (400 pages) : figures, tables (black and white); digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 330.95/0429
• Soggetti: Financial crises - Asia; Asia Economic conditions 1945-; Asia Economic policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published: 2003.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 shook the foundations of the global economy. What began as a localised currency crisis soon engulfed the entire Asian region. What went wrong and how did the Asian economies, long considered 'miracles', respond? How did the United States, Japan and other G-7 countries react to the crisis? What role did the IMF play? Why did China, which suffers from many of the same structural problems responsible for the crisis, remain conspicuously insulated from the turmoil raging in its midst? What explains Asia's remarkable recovery just three years after the crisis? In what fundamental ways did the Asian crisis serve as a catalyst to the current thinking about the 'new international financial architecture'? What lessons can be learnt from the crisis by other emerging economies? This book provides answers to all the above questions and more. It gives a comprehensive account of how the international economic order operates, examines its strengths and weaknesses, and what needs to be done to fix it. The book will be vital to students of economics, international political economy, Asian and development ; studies.

Atlas of Fourier coefficients of diurnal variation of foF2 / / William B. Jones

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910711249603321
• Autore: Jones William B
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Gaithersburg, MD : , : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, , 1962
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: NBS technical note ; ; 142
• Altri autori (Persone): JonesWilliam B
• Soggetti: Harmonic analysis; Ionosphere; Ionospheric radio wave propagation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: 1962.; Contributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.; Title from PDF title page.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.