02767nam 22006134a 450 991044992000332120200520144314.01-280-48136-60-19-803210-21-60256-435-3(CKB)1000000000028992(EBL)241345(SSID)ssj0000141113(PQKBManifestationID)11148620(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141113(PQKBWorkID)10057167(PQKB)11507796(MiAaPQ)EBC241345(Au-PeEL)EBL241345(CaPaEBR)ebr10084804(CaONFJC)MIL48136(OCoLC)935227070(EXLCZ)99100000000002899220010831d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDown to earth[electronic resource] nature's role in American history /Ted SteinbergOxford ;New York Oxford University Pressc20021 online resource (361 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-514009-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-331) and index.Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PROLOGUE: Rocks and History; PART 1 Chaos to Simplicity; PART 2 Rationalization and Its Discontents; PART 3 Consuming Nature; CONCLUSION: Disney Takes on the Animal Kingdom; Notes; Bibliography; IndexA tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and political development. Ranging from the colonists' attempts to impose order on the land to the modern efforts to sell the wilderness as a consumer good, packaged in national parks and Alaskan cruises,Human ecologyUnited StatesHistoryPhilosophy of natureUnited StatesHistoryHuman beingsEffect of environment onUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesEnvironmental conditionsElectronic books.Human ecologyHistory.Philosophy of natureHistory.Human beingsEffect of environment onHistory.333.7/13/0973Steinberg Theodore1961-865720MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910449920003321Down to earth1932016UNINA01259nam0 22003373i 450 RML034595820231121125758.020130129d1967 ||||0itac50 baitaitz01i xxxe z01nGuardando indietro2000-1887Edward Bellamyintroduzione e traduzione a cura di Evi MalagoliRistTorinoUTETstampa 1967300 p., 1 ritratto18 cm.˜I œgrandi scrittori stranieri212a curaSBLV150465001RAV01459132001 ˜I œgrandi scrittori stranieri212Looking backward.RAV0222186RAVV07497424781813.4Letteratura narrativa americana in inglese. 1867-1899.21Bellamy, EdwardRAVV074974070124816Malagoli, EviSBLV150465ITIT-0120130129IT-FR0017 Biblioteca umanistica Giorgio ApreaFR0017 RML0345958Biblioteca umanistica Giorgio Aprea 52MAG 5 COLL M 212 52MAG0000060725 VMB RS A 2013012920130129 52Looking backward24781UNICAS