02764nam 22006134a 450 991078326600332120230607215419.00-19-771264-91-280-48136-60-19-803210-21-60256-435-3(CKB)1000000000028992(EBL)241345(SSID)ssj0000141113(PQKBManifestationID)11148620(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141113(PQKBWorkID)10057167(PQKB)11507796(Au-PeEL)EBL241345(CaPaEBR)ebr10084804(CaONFJC)MIL48136(OCoLC)935227070(MiAaPQ)EBC241345(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 conditionsHuman ecologyHistory.Philosophy of natureHistory.Human beingsEffect of environment onHistory.333.7/13/0973Steinberg Theodore1961-1109544MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783266003321Down to earth2634314UNINA