02693nam 2200481Ia 450 991078336120332120240102235742.00-19-756069-50-19-802394-41-280-44183-61-4237-3851-91-60256-003-X(MiAaPQ)EBC241245(PPN)250698226(CKB)1000000000028745(EXLCZ)99100000000002874519920409d1993 uy 0engur|n#---|||||txtccrThe wealth of nature[electronic resource] environmental history and the ecological imagination /Donald WorsterNew York Oxford University Press19931 online resource (268 p.)Oxford scholarship onlineBook of essays which previously appeared in various journals or books or given as lectures.0-19-507624-9 0-19-509264-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-243) and index.Contents; 1. The Nature We Have Lost; 2. Paths Across the Levee; 3. History as Natural History; 4. Transformations of the Earth; 5. Arranging a Marriage: Ecology and Agriculture; 6. A Sense of Soil; 7. Good Farming and the Public Good; 8. Private, Public, Personal: Americans and the Land; 9. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Water; 10. Thinking Like a River; 11. An End to Ecstasy; 12. The Shaky Ground of Sustainable Development; 13. The Ecology of Order and Chaos; 14. Restoring a Natural Order; 15. John Muir and the Roots of American Environmentalism; 16. The Wealth of Nature; Notes; Index; AHailed as 'one of the most eminent environmental historians of the West' by Alan Brinkley in The New York Times Book Review, Donald Worster has been a leader in reshaping the study of American history. Winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his book 'Dust Bowl', Worster has helped bring humanity's interaction with nature to the forefront of historical thinking. Now, in 'The Wealth of Nature', he offers a series of thoughtful, eloquent essays which lay out his views on environmental history, tying the study of the past to today's agenda for change.Oxford scholarship online.Human ecologyUnited StatesHistoryLandscape assessmentUnited StatesHistoryHuman ecologyHistory.Landscape assessmentHistory.304.2/8/0973Worster Donald1941-128206BOOK9910783361203321The wealth of nature3846915UNINA