The American Environment Revisited

Environmental Historical Geographies of the United States
Herausgeber: Buckley, Geoffrey L.; Youngs, Yolonda

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 706g
• ISBN-13: 9781442269965
• ISBN-10: 1442269960
• Artikelnr.: 50437569

Autorenporträt

Edited by Geoffrey L. Buckley and Yolonda Youngs

Inhaltsangabe

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