A Companion to American Environmental History (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Sackman, Douglas Cazaux

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to American Environmental History gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history. * Provides a complete historiography of American environmental history * Brings the field up-to-date to reflect the latest trends and encourages new directions for the field * Includes the work of path-breaking environmental historians, from the founders of the field, to contributions from innovative young scholars * Takes stock of the discipline through five topically themed parts, with essays ranging from American Indian Environmental Relations to Cities and Suburbs

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 696
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444323627
• Artikelnr.: 37339117

Autorenporträt

Douglas Cazaux Sackman is James Dolliver NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound. His publications include Wild Men: Ishi and Kroeber in the Wilderness of Modern America (2010) and Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden (2005), winner of the 2006 Martin Ridge Award. He is currently working on a new book entitled American Panorama: Rediscovering the History of the American West. 

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction xiii
Part I The Elements of Environmental History 1
1 Paths Toward Home: Landmarks of the Field in Environmental History 3
Louis S. Warren
2 Air 33
Nancy Langston
3 The Living Earth: History, Darwinian Evolution, and the Grasslands 51
Donald Worster
4 Fire 69
Stephen J. Pyne
5 Water 92
Rebecca Solnit
Part II Nature and the Construction of Society and Identity 97
6 Race and US Environmental History 99
Colin Fisher
7 Gender 116
Susan R. Schrepfer and Douglas Cazaux Sackman
8 Class 146
Chad Montrie
9 Body Counts: Tracking the Human Body Through Environmental History 163
Neil M. Maher
Part III The Nature of American Culture 181
10 From Wilderness to Hybrid Landscapes: The Cultural Turn in Environmental
History 183
Richard White
11 American Indian Environmental Relations 191
David Rich Lewis
12 Cultures of Nature: To ca. 1810 214
Matthew Dennis
13 Cultures of Nature: Nineteenth Century 246
Aaron Sachs
14 Cultures of Nature: Twentieth Century 266
Finis Dunaway
15 From Wilderness Prophets to Tool Freaks: Post-World War II
Environmentalism 285
Andrew Kirk
16 The Black Box in the Garden: Consumers and the Environment 304
Tom McCarthy
Part IV Contact Zones: Americans Conjoining the Natural World 325
17 Flora 327
Frieda Knobloch
18 Fauna: A Prospectus for Evolutionary History 345
Edmund Russell
19 Water Development: The Plot Thickens 375
Patty Limerick
20 Rich Crevices of Inquiry: Mining and Environmental History 394
Katherine G. Morrissey
21 Who Cares About Forests? How Forest History Matters 410
Ellen Stroud
22 Cultivating an Agro-Environmental History 425
Sara M. Gregg
23 Oceans: Fusing the History of Science and Technology with Environmental
History 442
Helen M. Rozwadowski
24 Cities and Suburbs 462
Chris Sellers
25 Energy and Transportation 482
Brian Black
26 The Global Ecological Reach of the United States: Exporting Capital and
Importing Commodities 505
Richard P. Tucker
27 Food 529
Douglas Cazaux Sackman
Part V Outside of the Grid: Place, Borders, and Scale 551
28 Blinded by History: The Geographic Dimension of Environment and Society
553
Richard Walker and Sarah Thomas
29 The Northeastern Pacifi c Basin: An Environmental Approach to Seascapes
and Littoral Places 579
David Igler
30 Earthlings: Evolution and Place in Environmental History 595
Dan Flores
31 "Most Fruitful Results": Transborder Approaches to Canadian-American
Environmental History 615
Ted Binnema
32 Seeing Beyond Our Borders: US and Non-US Historiographies 635
Paul Sutter
Index 653

Rezensionen

"A Companion to American Environmental History gatherstogether a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examinethe evolving and diverse field of American environmentalhistory." (Native American Encyclopedia, 8January 2014)