Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples (eBook, ePUB)

Readings in Environmental History
Redaktion: Goble, Dale D.; Hirt, Paul W.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

It can be said that all of human history is environmental history, for all human action happens in an environmentin a place. This collection of essays explores the environmental history of the Pacific Northwest of North America, addressing questions of how humans have adapted to the northwestern landscape and modified it over time, and how the changing landscape in turn affected human society, economy, laws, and values.

Northwest Lands and Peoples includes essays by historians, anthropologists, ecologists, a botanist, geographers, biologists, law professors, and a journalist. It addresses a wide variety of topics indicative of current scholarship in the rapidly growing field of environmental history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295801377
• Artikelnr.: 44784424

Autorenporträt

Edited by Dale D. Goble and Paul W. Hirt

Inhaltsangabe

Preface - Paul Hirt & Dale Goble
1) Setting the Pacific Northwest Stage: The Influence of the Natural
Environment - Eric Ewert
PART I: THIS PLACE
2) Place: An Argument for Bioregional History - Dan Flores
3) A Natural History of the Puget Sound Basin - Arthur Kruckeberg
4) From Where We Are Standing: The Sense of Place and Environmental History
- William Lang
5) Willamette Eden: The Ambitious Legacy - William Robbins
6) Footprints and Pathways: The Urban Imprint on the Pacific Northwest -
Carl Abbott
PART II: FIRST PEOPLES
7) Salmon, Sedentism, and Cultivation: Toward an Environmental Prehistory
of the Northwest Coast - Douglas Deur
8) Mobility as a Factor Limiting Resource Use on the Columbia Plateau -
Eugene Hunn
9) Unusual Gardens: The Nez Perce and Wild Horticulture on the Eastern
Columbia Plateau - Alan Marshall
10) Megafauna of the Columbia Basin, 1800-1840: Lewis and Clark in a Game
Sink - Paul Martin & Christine Szuter
11) Land Divided: Yakima Tribal Land Use in the Federal Allotment Era -
Barbara Wester
PART III: RIVERS
12) Salmon in the Columbia Basin: From Abundance to Extinction - Dale Goble
13) The Northwest's Hydroelectric Heritage - Michael Blumm
14) Fish First! The Changing Ethics of Ecosystem Management - Carolyn
Merchant
PART IV: AGRICULTURE
15) Ecological Influences of the Introduction of Livestock on Pacific
Northwest Ecosystems - Kathleen Dwire, Bruce McIntosh, & Boone Kauffman
16) Environmental Change in the Northern Rockies: Settlement and Livestock
Grazing in Southwestern Montana - William Wyckoff & Katherine Hansen
17) Creating a Hybrid Landscape: Irrigated Agriculture in Idaho - Mark
Fiege
18) Cultural Perceptions of the Irrigated Landscape in the Pacific
Northwest - Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
PART V: FORESTS
19) Human and Ecological Change in the Inland Northwest Forests - Nancy
Langston
20) Getting Out the Cut: A History of National Forest Management in the
Northern Rockies - Paul Hirt
21) Changing Forests, Changing Needs: Using the Pacific Northwest's
Westside Forests, Past and Present - Thomas Cox
PART VI: MINING
22) Mining, Environment, and Historical Change in the Island Northwest -
Katherine Morrissey
23) Western Smelters and the Problem of Smelter Smoke - Katherine Aiken
Epilogue: Environmental History and Human Perception - William Dietrich
Contributors
Index