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200 10$aDown to earth$b[electronic resource] $enature's role in American history /$fTed Steinberg
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc2002
215   $a1 online resource (361 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-19-514009-5 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-331) and index.
327   $aContents; 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; Index
330   $aA 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,
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606   $aPhilosophy of nature$zUnited States$xHistory
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