This innovative book provides a dynamic-and often surprising-view of the range of environmental issues facing the United States today. Distinguished scholars examine the growing temporal, spatial, and thematic breadth of topics historical geographers are now exploring, giving a fascinating look at our changing relationship with nature.
This innovative book provides a dynamic-and often surprising-view of the range of environmental issues facing the United States today. Distinguished scholars examine the growing temporal, spatial, and thematic breadth of topics historical geographers are now exploring, giving a fascinating look at our changing relationship with nature.
Geoffrey L. Buckley is professor of geography at Ohio University. Yolonda Youngs is assistant professor in the department of global studies at Idaho State University.
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Preface Craig E. Colten and Lary M. Dilsaver Introduction Geoffrey L. Buckley and Yolonda Youngs Part I: Nature Gone Wild Chapter 1: Toward a Historical Geography of Human-Invasive Species Relations: How Kudzu Came to Belong in the American South Derek H. Alderman Chapter 2: Unruly Domestic Environments: Do-It-Yourself Pesticides, Gender, and Regulation in Post-World War II Homes Dawn Biehler Chapter 3: From Noble Stag to Suburban Vermin: The Return of Deer to the Northeast United States Bob Wilson Part II: Parks and Recreation Chapter 4: Wild, Unpredictable, and Dangerous: A Historical Geography of Hazards and Risks in U.S. National Parks Yolonda Youngs Chapter 5: Migration and Social Justice in Wilderness Creation Katie Algeo and Collins Eke Chapter 6: Racialized Assemblages and State Park Design in the Jim Crow South William E. O'Brien Chapter 7: Shredding Mountain Lines: GoPro, Mobility, and the Spatial Politics of Outdoor Sports Annie Gilbert Coleman Part III: Living in the City Chapter 8: Frederick Law Olmsted's Abandoned San Francisco Park Plan Terence Young Chapter 9: Inventing Phoenix: Land Use, Politics, and Environmental Justice Abigail M. York and Christopher G. Boone Chapter 10: Fresh Kills Landfill: Landscape to Wastescape to Ecoscape Martin V. Melosi Part IV: Transforming the Environment Chapter 11: Progressive Legacy: Fred Besley and the Rise of Professional Forestry in Maryland Geoffrey L. Buckley Chapter 12: Gold vs. Grain: Oblique Ecologies of Hydraulic Mining in California Gareth Hoskins Chapter 13: Bridging the Florida Keys: Engineering an Environmental Transformation, 1904-1912 K. Maria D. Lane Chapter 14: Florida's Springs: Growth, Tourism, and Politics Christopher F. Meindl Part V: Eye on Nature Chapter 15: Reconsidering the Sublime: Images and Imaginative Geographies in American Environmental History Finis Dunaway Chapter 16: American Environmental Photography Steven Hoelscher Chapter 17: Environments of the Imagination Dydia DeLyser Afterword William Wyckoff
Preface Craig E. Colten and Lary M. Dilsaver Introduction Geoffrey L. Buckley and Yolonda Youngs Part I: Nature Gone Wild Chapter 1: Toward a Historical Geography of Human-Invasive Species Relations: How Kudzu Came to Belong in the American South Derek H. Alderman Chapter 2: Unruly Domestic Environments: Do-It-Yourself Pesticides, Gender, and Regulation in Post-World War II Homes Dawn Biehler Chapter 3: From Noble Stag to Suburban Vermin: The Return of Deer to the Northeast United States Bob Wilson Part II: Parks and Recreation Chapter 4: Wild, Unpredictable, and Dangerous: A Historical Geography of Hazards and Risks in U.S. National Parks Yolonda Youngs Chapter 5: Migration and Social Justice in Wilderness Creation Katie Algeo and Collins Eke Chapter 6: Racialized Assemblages and State Park Design in the Jim Crow South William E. O'Brien Chapter 7: Shredding Mountain Lines: GoPro, Mobility, and the Spatial Politics of Outdoor Sports Annie Gilbert Coleman Part III: Living in the City Chapter 8: Frederick Law Olmsted's Abandoned San Francisco Park Plan Terence Young Chapter 9: Inventing Phoenix: Land Use, Politics, and Environmental Justice Abigail M. York and Christopher G. Boone Chapter 10: Fresh Kills Landfill: Landscape to Wastescape to Ecoscape Martin V. Melosi Part IV: Transforming the Environment Chapter 11: Progressive Legacy: Fred Besley and the Rise of Professional Forestry in Maryland Geoffrey L. Buckley Chapter 12: Gold vs. Grain: Oblique Ecologies of Hydraulic Mining in California Gareth Hoskins Chapter 13: Bridging the Florida Keys: Engineering an Environmental Transformation, 1904-1912 K. Maria D. Lane Chapter 14: Florida's Springs: Growth, Tourism, and Politics Christopher F. Meindl Part V: Eye on Nature Chapter 15: Reconsidering the Sublime: Images and Imaginative Geographies in American Environmental History Finis Dunaway Chapter 16: American Environmental Photography Steven Hoelscher Chapter 17: Environments of the Imagination Dydia DeLyser Afterword William Wyckoff
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