The Columbia guide to American environmental history
Merchant (environmental history, philosophy, and ethics, U. of California, Berkeley) wrote the important The Death of Nature, a history of culture's centuries old assault and battery of nature, and is president of the American Society for Environmental History. She begins her book with an essay that covers the period 1000-1875 (when Europeans encountered Native Americans) and ends with what Merchant perhaps too optimistically deems The Era of Environmentalism, 1940-2000. Her 200-page historical essay is followed by several appendices: a dictionary or concise encyclopedia of agencies, concepts, laws, and people; a chronology beginning 13,000 years ago and ending in 2000; a list of film and video resources; electronic resources; and a bibliographic essay and gargantuan bibliography organized according to subject. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
History
xviii, 448 pages ; 24 cm.
9780231112321, 9780231112338, 0231112327, 0231112335
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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 Electronic Resources Bibliographical Essay Bibliography