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Autore: | Fiege Mark |
Titolo: | The republic of nature : an environmental history of the United States / / Mark Fiege |
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 |
ISBN: | 0-295-80414-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910814040103321 |
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