04805nam 2200757Ia 450 991014061600332120200520144314.01-282-54821-21-78034-093-197866125482151-4051-9735-81-4443-2361-X1-4443-2362-8(CKB)2670000000009649(EBL)487741(OCoLC)605037700(SSID)ssj0000358112(PQKBManifestationID)11278834(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358112(PQKBWorkID)10359634(PQKB)11547301(MiAaPQ)EBC487741(MiAaPQ)EBC4956380(Au-PeEL)EBL487741(CaPaEBR)ebr10366581(Au-PeEL)EBL4956380(CaONFJC)MIL254821(OCoLC)587391490(PPN)23244613X(EXLCZ)99267000000000964920091020d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA companion to American environmental history[electronic resource] /edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman1st ed.Chichester, West Sussex ;Malden, MA Wiley-Blackwell20101 online resource (694 p.)Blackwell companions to American historyDescription based upon print version of record.1-118-79141-X 1-4051-5665-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Culture10 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 Thickens20 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 Society29 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; IndexA 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 essaysBlackwell companions to American history.EnvironmentalismUnited StatesHistoryEnvironmental policyUnited StatesHistoryGreen movementUnited StatesHistoryEnvironmentalismHistory.Environmental policyHistory.Green movementHistory.333.720973Sackman Douglas Cazaux1968-929481MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910140616003321A companion to American environmental history2089380UNINA