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Titolo: |
A companion to American environmental history [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Douglas Cazaux Sackman
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Pubblicazione: | Chichester, West Sussex ; ; Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (694 p.) |
Disciplina: | 333.720973 |
Soggetto topico: | Environmentalism - United States - History |
Environmental policy - United States - History | |
Green movement - United States - History | |
Altri autori: |
SackmanDouglas Cazaux <1968->
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | A COMPANION TO AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I The Elements of Environmental History; 1 Paths Toward Home: Landmarks of the Field in Environmental History; 2 Air; 3 The Living Earth: History, Darwinian Evolution, and the Grasslands; 4 Fire; 5 Water; Part II Nature and the Construction of Society and Identity; 6 Race and US Environmental History; 7 Gender; 8 Class; 9 Body Counts: Tracking the Human Body Through Environmental History; Part III The Nature of American Culture |
10 From Wilderness to Hybrid Landscapes: The Cultural Turn in Environmental History 11 American Indian Environmental Relations; 12 Cultures of Nature: To ca. 1810; 13 Cultures of Nature: Nineteenth Century; 14 Cultures of Nature: Twentieth Century; 15 From Wilderness Prophets to Tool Freaks: Post-World War II Environmentalism; 16 The Black Box in the Garden: Consumers and the Environment; Part IV Contact Zones: Americans Conjoining the Natural World; 17 Flora; 18 Fauna: A Prospectus for Evolutionary History; 19 Water Development: The Plot Thickens | |
20 Rich Crevices of Inquiry: Mining and Environmental History 21 Who Cares About Forests? How Forest History Matters; 22 Cultivating an Agro-Environmental History; 23 Oceans: Fusing the History of Science and Technology with Environmental History; 24 Cities and Suburbs; 25 Energy and Transportation; 26 The Global Ecological Reach of the United States: Exporting Capital and Importing Commodities; 27 Food; Part V Outside of the Grid: Place, Borders, and Scale; 28 Blinded by History: The Geographic Dimension of Environment and Society | |
29 The Northeastern Pacific Basin: An Environmental Approach to Seascapes and Littoral Places 30 Earthlings: Evolution and Place in Environmental History; 31 "Most Fruitful Results": Transborder Approaches to Canadian-American Environmental History; 32 Seeing Beyond Our Borders: US and Non-US Historiographies; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | A Companion to American Environmental History gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history.Provides a complete historiography of American environmental history Brings the field up-to-date to reflect the latest trends and encourages new directions for the field Includes the work of path-breaking environmental historians, from the founders of the field, to contributions from innovative young scholars Takes stock of the discipline through five topically themed parts, with essays |
Titolo autorizzato: | A companion to American environmental history ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-282-54821-2 |
1-78034-093-1 | |
9786612548215 | |
1-4051-9735-8 | |
1-4443-2361-X | |
1-4443-2362-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910815187403321 |
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