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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814040103321

Autore

Fiege Mark

Titolo

The republic of nature : an environmental history of the United States / / Mark Fiege

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2012

ISBN

0-295-80414-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (600 p.)

Collana

Weyerhaeuser environmental books

Disciplina

304.20973

Soggetti

Human ecology - United States - History

Nature - Effect of human beings on - United States - History

United States Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Environmental History Comes of Age by William Cronon -- Land of Lincoln -- 1. Satan in the Land: Nature, the Supernatural, and Disorder in Colonial New England -- 2. By the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: Declaring American Independence -- 3. King Cotton: The Cotton Plant and Southern Slavery -- 4. Nature's Nobleman: Abraham Lincoln and the Improvement of America -- 5. The Nature of Gettysburg: Environmental History and the Civil War -- 6. Iron Horses: Nature and the Building of the First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad -- 7. Atomic Sublime: Toward a Natural History of the Bomb -- 8. The Road to Brown v. Board: An Environmental History of the Color Line -- 9. It's a Gas: The United States and the Oil Shock of 1973-1974 -- Paths That Beckon -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Illustration Credits -- Index.