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The republic of nature : an environmental history of the United States / / Mark Fiege



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Autore: Fiege Mark Visualizza persona
Titolo: The republic of nature : an environmental history of the United States / / Mark Fiege Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (600 p.)
Disciplina: 304.20973
Soggetto topico: Human ecology - United States - History
Nature - Effect of human beings on - United States - History
Soggetto geografico: United States Environmental conditions
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The republic of nature  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-295-80414-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814040103321
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Serie: Weyerhaeuser environmental book.