Down to earth [[electronic resource] ] : nature's role in American history / / Ted Steinberg

• Autore: Steinberg Theodore <1961->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (361 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.7/13/0973
• Soggetto topico: Human ecology - United States - History; Philosophy of nature - United States - History; Human beings - Effect of environment on - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Environmental conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-331) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Down to earth
• ISBN: 0-19-771264-9; 1-280-48136-6; 0-19-803210-2; 1-60256-435-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783266003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II