The Columbia Guide to American Environmental HistoryColumbia University Press, 14 Sep 2005 - 400 halaman How and why have Americans living at particular times and places used and transformed their environment? How have political systems dealt with conflicts over resources and conservation? This is the only major reference work to explore all the major themes and debates of the burgeoning field of environmental history. Humanity ́s relationship with the natural world is one of the oldest and newest topics in human history. The issue emerged as a distinct field of scholarship in the early 1970s and has been growing steadily ever since. The discipline ́s territory and sources are rich and varied and include climactic and geological data, court records, archaeological digs, and the writings of naturalists, as well as federal and state economic and resource development and conservation policy. Environmental historians investigate how and why natural and human-created surroundings affect a society ́s development. Merchant provides a context-setting overview of American environmental history from the beginning of the millennium; an encyclopedia of important concepts, people, agencies, and laws; a chronology of major events; and an extensive bibliography including films, videos, CD-Roms, and websites. This concise "first stop" reference for students and general readers contains an accessible overview of environmental history; a mini-encyclopedia of ideas, people, legislation, and agencies; a chronology of events and their significance; and a bibliography of books, magazines, and journals as well as films, videos, CD-ROMs, and online resources. In addition to providing a wealth of factual information, The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History explores contentious issues in this much-debated field, from the idea of wilderness to global warming. |
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... South, 1600–1900 39 The Chesapeake Environment and Indian-European Relations 39 Tobacco Cultivation 41 Slavery and Southern Agriculture 43 Soil Exhaustion in the Tobacco South 47 The Cotton South 49 Environment and Society in the Cotton ...
... South America. Some recently discovered sites in Monte Verde, Chile, are perhaps 15,000 years old, although radiocarbon methods of dating the remains are subject to further verification, as is the question as to whether those sites were ...
... south of Newfoundland, Labrador, and the St. Lawrence River. Micmac hunting, like that of other cultures in the Northeast, was based primarily on large animals, such as moose, deer, elk, and caribou, sources of both meat and hides. In ...
... South Leaflets, no. 50 (1629), 4–5. 3. Timothy Dwight, Travels in New England and New York, ed. Barbara M. Solomon and Patricia M. King (1823; reprint, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969), 2:160–61. 4. Edward Kendall, Travels ...
... the Wrong Nature,” in Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, ed. William Cronon (New York: Norton, 1995), 69. 13. Ibid., 79. 14. Ibid., 70. The Tobacco and Cotton South, 1600 –1900 3 The study 38 historical overview.
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4 Nature and the Market Economy 17501850 | 59 |
The Settlement of California and the Great Plaines 18201930 | 80 |
6 Urban Environments 18501960 | 100 |
7 Conservation and Preservation 17851950 | 120 |
8 Indian Land Policy 18001990 | 140 |
AGENCIES CONCEPTS LAWS AND PEOPLE | 191 |
AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY TIMELINE | 249 |
Part IV RESOURCE GUIDE | 269 |
Films and Videos | 271 |
Electronic Resources | 291 |
Bibliographical Essay | 311 |
Bibliography | 323 |
Index | 423 |