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200 14$aThe wealth of nature$b[electronic resource] $eenvironmental history and the ecological imagination /$fDonald Worster
210   $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1993
215   $a1 online resource (268 p.)
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300   $aBook of essays which previously appeared in various journals or books or given as lectures.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-243) and index.
327   $aContents; 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; A
330 8 $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.
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