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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... areas of pristine “wilderness” can be identified, then laws to preserve these remnants can be passed, implemented, and adjudicated through the courts. If, on the other hand, what wilderness means is an ephemeral semantic debate having ...
... areas, and the creation of government and state agencies to manage and conserve natural resources. A fourth approach to the field is to focus on the history of ideas about nature. Histories of a philosophical idea such as wilderness, a ...
... area that is now Russia and then across the Bering land bridge, thus entering the Americas. These earliest bands, which arrived at least 13,000 years ago (and possibly, some believe, as early as 35,000 years ago), were able to survive ...
... area of the Southwest presently known as the Four Corners— where Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico converge—a confluence of cultures existed. The Hohokam, who settled in southern Arizona, practiced irrigation-based horticulture ...
... areas, as well as pathways descending to agricultural fields in the valleys. The vast agricultural network covered ... area in the sixteenth century. An ecological complex of introduced animals, plants, pathogens, and people radically ...
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2 The New England Wilderness Transformed 16001850 | 24 |
3 The Tobacco and Cotton South 16001900 | 39 |
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 |
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