Chris J Magoc

So Glorious a Landscape

Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture surveys the vast and interdisciplinary subject of American natural and environmental studies. It examines the literary landscape that has inspired a local, regional,

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 301
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780842026956
• ISBN-10: 0842026959
• Artikelnr.: 21006213

Autorenporträt

By Chris J. Magoc

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 I Indian Ecology, American Conquest Chapter 2 Acoma Pueblo Creation
Myth Chapter 3 Tewa Sky Looms Chapter 4 William Bradford, A Hideous and
Desolate Wilderness (1647) Chapter 5 Thomas Morton, Potential of the New
English Canaan (1632) Chapter 6 Carolyn Merchant, Fate of the Abenaki in
the Colonial Ecological Revolution Chapter 7 The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Chapter 8 William Gilpin, The Untransacted Destiny of the American People
(1846) Chapter 9 Monterey Californian, Americans Spread All Over California
(1846) Chapter 10 Joaquin Miller, Social and Environmental Degradation in
the California Gold Country (1890) Chapter 11 Wintu Indian Kate Luckie, The
Soreness of the Land (1925) Part 12 II Nature's Nation: The American
Landscape and the Nature Writing Tradition Chapter 13 Henry David Thoreau,
Where I Lived and What I Lived For (1854) Chapter 14 John Muir, My First
Summer in the Sierra (1868) Chapter 15 John Burroughs, Spring at the
Capital (1871) Chapter 16 Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain (1903)
Chapter 17 Annie Dillard, The Present at Tinker Creek (1974) Part 18
Science, Nature, and the Emergence of an Ecological Ethic Chapter 19
William Bartram, The Animal Creation and the Importance of Ephemera (1791)
Chapter 20 George Perkins Marsh, The Destructiveness of Man (1864) Chapter
21 Ellen Swallow Richards, Human Ecology and the Habits of Sanitation in
the Modern Urban Environment (1907) Chapter 22 Aldo Leopold, Land-Use
Ethics and Economic Self-Interest (1949) Part 23 IV Power and Place: The
Meeting of Social and Environmental History Chapter 24 Robert Gottlieb,
Alice Hamilton Explores the Dangerous Trades Chapter 25 David R. Brower,
Preserving the Hallowed Ground of Dinosaur National Monument (1954) Chapter
26 Harry M. Caudill, The Rape of the Appalachians (1962) Chapter 27 Lois
Gibbs, What Happened at Love Canal (1982) Chapter 28 Eileen Maura McGurty,
The Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement (1997) Part 29 V The
Environmental Era: Responses to Nature in Distress Chapter 30 Robinson
Jeffers, Passenger Pigeons (1949) Chapter 31 Lynn White, Jr., The Historic
Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis (1967) Chapter 32 Edward Abbey, Polemic:
Industrial Tourism and the National Parks (1968) Chapter 33 Leslie Marmon
Silko, The Fate of All Living Things (1977) Chapter 34 The National
Environmental Policy Act (1969) Chapter 35 Lawrence W. Libby and Rodney L.
Clouser, Population and Global Economic Patterns (1990) Chapter 36 Ron
Arnold, Wise Use: What Do We Believe (1996) Chapter 37 Andree Collard with
Joyce Contrucci, Women and Ecology (1988)