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UNINA9910814040103321 |
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Autore |
Fiege Mark |
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Titolo |
The republic of nature : an environmental history of the United States / / Mark Fiege |
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Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2012 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (600 p.) |
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Collana |
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Weyerhaeuser environmental books |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Human ecology - United States - History |
Nature - Effect of human beings on - United States - History |
United States Environmental conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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