The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Merchant Carolyn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (469 p.) |
Disciplina |
304.2
333.70973 |
Collana | Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology -- United States -- History
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- History United States -- Environmental conditions |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: TOPICS AND THEMES; 1. The American Environment and Native-European Encounters, 1000-1875; The Physical Environment and Natural Resources; Native Americans and the Land; Pueblo Indians and the Southwest; The Pueblo Indians and Spanish Settlement of the Southwest; Micmac Indians and French Settlement in the Northeast; Plains Indians and the Westward Movement; The European Transformation of the Plains; The Ecological Indian; Conclusion; 2. The New England Wilderness Transformed, 1600-1850
The New England Forest and Indian Land UseThe Settlement of New England; Colonial Land Use; Marketing the Forest; The Forest Economy; Mind, Labor, and Nature; The Idea of Wilderness; Conclusion; 3. The Tobacco and Cotton South, 1600-1900; The Chesapeake Environment and Indian-European Relations; Tobacco Cultivation; Slavery and Southern Agriculture; Soil Exhaustion in the Tobacco South; The Cotton South; Environment and Society in the Cotton South; Cotton Production; Post-Civil War Sharecropping; The Impact of the Boll Weevil; Conclusion; 4. Nature and the Market Economy, 1750-1850 The Inland Economy and the EnvironmentLand Use in the Inland Economy; The Inland Economy and the Worldview of Its People; Market Farming; The Transportation and Market Revolutions; Nature and Ambivalence About the Market Economy; The Hudson River School of Painters; Artists and the Vanishing Indian; Conclusion; 5. Western Frontiers: The Settlement of California and the Great Plaines, 1820-1930; Westward Expansion and the Settlement of California; California Native Peoples and the Advent of Europeans; The Multicultural Character of the Gold Rush; Types of Gold Mining Environmental Effects of Hydraulic MiningEnvironmental Change in the Sierras; European Settlement of the Great Plains; The Rancher's Frontier; The Farmer's Frontier; Narratives of Blacks and Women; The Dust Bowl of the 1930s; Conclusion; 6. Urban Environments, 1850-1960; Urbanization, Industry, and Energy; Industrial Cities and Labor; The City as Wilderness; Air Pollution; Garbage; Noise Pollution; Water Pollution; The Sanitary City; From City to Suburb; Minorities and Pollution; Conclusion; 7. Conservation and Preservation, 1785-1950; Colonial Land Policy; Federal Land Policy Land Law in the Arid WestLands for Railroads and Education; The Conservation Movement; Reclamation and Water Law; The Preservation Movement; Creation of the National Parks; Conclusion; 8. Indian Land Policy, 1800-1990; Indian Land Treaties; Indian Removal; The Dawes Act; Indians and the Creation of the National Parks; The Winters Decision; The Indian New Deal and Civil Rights; Indian Lands and Environmental Regulation; Conclusion; 9. The Rise of Ecology, 1890-1990; Ernst Haeckel and the Origins of Ecology; Human Ecology; The Organismic Approach to Ecology; The Economic Approach to Ecology The Influence of Chaos Theory |
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The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Merchant Carolyn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (469 p.) |
Disciplina |
304.2
333.70973 |
Collana | Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology -- United States -- History
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- History United States -- Environmental conditions |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: TOPICS AND THEMES; 1. The American Environment and Native-European Encounters, 1000-1875; The Physical Environment and Natural Resources; Native Americans and the Land; Pueblo Indians and the Southwest; The Pueblo Indians and Spanish Settlement of the Southwest; Micmac Indians and French Settlement in the Northeast; Plains Indians and the Westward Movement; The European Transformation of the Plains; The Ecological Indian; Conclusion; 2. The New England Wilderness Transformed, 1600-1850
The New England Forest and Indian Land UseThe Settlement of New England; Colonial Land Use; Marketing the Forest; The Forest Economy; Mind, Labor, and Nature; The Idea of Wilderness; Conclusion; 3. The Tobacco and Cotton South, 1600-1900; The Chesapeake Environment and Indian-European Relations; Tobacco Cultivation; Slavery and Southern Agriculture; Soil Exhaustion in the Tobacco South; The Cotton South; Environment and Society in the Cotton South; Cotton Production; Post-Civil War Sharecropping; The Impact of the Boll Weevil; Conclusion; 4. Nature and the Market Economy, 1750-1850 The Inland Economy and the EnvironmentLand Use in the Inland Economy; The Inland Economy and the Worldview of Its People; Market Farming; The Transportation and Market Revolutions; Nature and Ambivalence About the Market Economy; The Hudson River School of Painters; Artists and the Vanishing Indian; Conclusion; 5. Western Frontiers: The Settlement of California and the Great Plaines, 1820-1930; Westward Expansion and the Settlement of California; California Native Peoples and the Advent of Europeans; The Multicultural Character of the Gold Rush; Types of Gold Mining Environmental Effects of Hydraulic MiningEnvironmental Change in the Sierras; European Settlement of the Great Plains; The Rancher's Frontier; The Farmer's Frontier; Narratives of Blacks and Women; The Dust Bowl of the 1930s; Conclusion; 6. Urban Environments, 1850-1960; Urbanization, Industry, and Energy; Industrial Cities and Labor; The City as Wilderness; Air Pollution; Garbage; Noise Pollution; Water Pollution; The Sanitary City; From City to Suburb; Minorities and Pollution; Conclusion; 7. Conservation and Preservation, 1785-1950; Colonial Land Policy; Federal Land Policy Land Law in the Arid WestLands for Railroads and Education; The Conservation Movement; Reclamation and Water Law; The Preservation Movement; Creation of the National Parks; Conclusion; 8. Indian Land Policy, 1800-1990; Indian Land Treaties; Indian Removal; The Dawes Act; Indians and the Creation of the National Parks; The Winters Decision; The Indian New Deal and Civil Rights; Indian Lands and Environmental Regulation; Conclusion; 9. The Rise of Ecology, 1890-1990; Ernst Haeckel and the Origins of Ecology; Human Ecology; The Organismic Approach to Ecology; The Economic Approach to Ecology The Influence of Chaos Theory |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785515603321 |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, 2012 | ||
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The Columbia guide to American environmental history / / Carolyn Merchant |
Autore | Merchant Carolyn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2005] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Collana | Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures |
Soggetto topico | SCIENCE / History |
ISBN | 0-231-50584-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Historical Overview:Topics and Themes -- 1. The American Environment and Native-European Encounters, 1000-1875 -- 2. The New England Wilderness Transformed, 1600-1850 -- 3. The Tobacco and Cotton South, 1600-1900 -- 4. Nature and the Market Economy, 1750-1850 -- 5. Western Frontiers: The Settlement of California and the Great Plains, 1820 -1930 -- 6. Urban Environments, 1850-1960 -- 7. Conservation and Preservation, 1785-1950 -- 8. Indian Land Policy, 1800-1990 -- 9. The Rise of Ecology, 1890-1990 -- 10. The Era of Environmentalism, 1940-2000 -- Part II. American Environmental History A to Z: Agencies, Concepts, Laws, and People -- Part III. Chronology: An Environmental History Timeline -- Part IV. Resource Guide -- Visual Resources: Films and Videos -- Electronic Resources -- Bibliographical Essay -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910423652003321 |
Merchant Carolyn
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New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2005] | ||
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Ecological revolutions [[electronic resource] ] : nature, gender, and science in New England / / Carolyn Merchant ; with a new preface and epilogue by the author |
Autore | Merchant Carolyn |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 304.20974 |
Collana | H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology - New England - History
Indians of North America - New England - Economic conditions Human ecology - Philosophy - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4696-0389-6
0-8078-9962-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457120503321 |
Merchant Carolyn
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Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, 2010 | ||
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Ecological revolutions [[electronic resource] ] : nature, gender, and science in New England / / Carolyn Merchant ; with a new preface and epilogue by the author |
Autore | Merchant Carolyn |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 304.20974 |
Collana | H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology - New England - History
Indians of North America - New England - Economic conditions Human ecology - Philosophy - History |
ISBN |
1-4696-0389-6
0-8078-9962-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781316503321 |
Merchant Carolyn
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Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, 2010 | ||
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La morte della natura : donne, ecologia e rivoluzione scientifica / Carolyn Merchant ; edizione italiana a cura di Paolo Savoia ; traduzione dall'inglese di Libero Sosio |
Autore | Merchant, Carolyn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Milano, : Editrice bibliografica, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 494 p. : ill. ; 20 cm |
Disciplina | 304.2082 |
Collana | Storie della scienza |
Soggetto non controllato |
Ecofemminismo
Natura - Concezione - Storia |
ISBN | 978-88-93574-38-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910899701103321 |
Merchant, Carolyn
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Milano, : Editrice bibliografica, 2022 | ||
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La morte della natura : le donne, l'ecologia e la rivoluzione scientifica / Carolyn Merchant ; presentazione di Elisabetta Donini |
Autore | Merchant, Carolyn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Milano : Garzanti, ©1988 |
Descrizione fisica | 426 p. ; 22 cm |
Collana | Saggi rossi |
ISBN | 88-11-59403-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNINA-990003469330403321 |
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Milano : Garzanti, ©1988 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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La morte della natura : le donne, l'ecologia e la rivoluzione scientifica / Carolyn Merchant ; presentazione di Elisabetta Donini |
Autore | MERCHANT, Carolyn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Milano : Garzanti, 1988 |
Descrizione fisica | 426 p. ; 21 cm |
Disciplina | 306.45 |
Collana | Saggi rossi |
Soggetto topico | Ecologia |
ISBN | 88-11-59403-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNISA-990005423030203316 |
MERCHANT, Carolyn
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Milano : Garzanti, 1988 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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La morte della natura : le donne, l'ecologia e la rivoluzione scientifica / Carolyn Merchant ; presentazione di Elisabetta Donini |
Autore | Merchant, Carolyn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Milano, : Garzanti, 1988 |
Descrizione fisica | 425 p. ; 22 cm |
Collana | Saggi rossi |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ita |
Record Nr. | UNISOB-E600200037015 |
Merchant, Carolyn
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Milano, : Garzanti, 1988 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Suor Orsola Benincasa | ||
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Major problems in american environmental history : documents and essays / edited by Carolyn Merchant |
Autore | Merchant, Carolyn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lexington (Ma) ; Toronto : D.C. Heath and Company, c1993 |
Descrizione fisica | xviii, 568, xix p. ; 23 cm. |
Disciplina | 973 |
Collana | Major problems in american history series |
Soggetto topico | Stati Uniti d'America - Storia - Documenti |
ISBN | 0669249939 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991003969009707536 |
Merchant, Carolyn
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Lexington (Ma) ; Toronto : D.C. Heath and Company, c1993 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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