03278nam 22006854a 450 991081225860332120200520144314.00-19-771264-91-280-48136-60-19-803210-21-60256-435-310.1093/oso/9780195140095.001.0001(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(OCoLC)1410954895(StDuBDS)9780197712641(EXLCZ)99100000000002899220010831d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDown to earth nature's role in American history /Ted Steinberg1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Pressc20021 online resource (361 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.0-19-514009-5 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, Steinberg reminds readers that many critical episodes in our history were, in fact, environmental events: the California Gold Rush, for example, or the great migration of African Americans to the North in the early twentieth century (in part the consequence of an insect infestation).Oxford scholarship online.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 Theodore1961-1109544MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812258603321Down to earth2634314UNINA