02665nam 2200577Ia 450 991081404010332120200520144314.00-295-80414-9(CKB)3170000000046490(OCoLC)781635673(CaPaEBR)ebrary10546072(SSID)ssj0000601784(PQKBManifestationID)11353316(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000601784(PQKBWorkID)10566125(PQKB)11453341(MiAaPQ)EBC3444453(MdBmJHUP)muse16143(Au-PeEL)EBL3444453(CaPaEBR)ebr10546072(EXLCZ)99317000000004649020110822d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe republic of nature an environmental history of the United States /Mark Fiege1st ed.Seattle University of Washington Pressc20121 online resource (600 p.)Weyerhaeuser environmental booksBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-295-99167-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Environmental History Comes of Age by William Cronon -- Land of Lincoln -- 1. Satan in the Land: Nature, the Supernatural, and Disorder in Colonial New England -- 2. By the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: Declaring American Independence -- 3. King Cotton: The Cotton Plant and Southern Slavery -- 4. Nature's Nobleman: Abraham Lincoln and the Improvement of America -- 5. The Nature of Gettysburg: Environmental History and the Civil War -- 6. Iron Horses: Nature and the Building of the First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad -- 7. Atomic Sublime: Toward a Natural History of the Bomb -- 8. The Road to Brown v. Board: An Environmental History of the Color Line -- 9. It's a Gas: The United States and the Oil Shock of 1973-1974 -- Paths That Beckon -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Illustration Credits -- Index.Weyerhaeuser environmental book.Human ecologyUnited StatesHistoryNatureEffect of human beings onUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesEnvironmental conditionsHuman ecologyHistory.NatureEffect of human beings onHistory.304.20973Fiege Mark1124486MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814040103321The republic of nature4106901UNINA