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From coastal wilderness to fruited plain : a history of environmental change in temperate North America, 1500 to the present
- Title
- From coastal wilderness to fruited plain : a history of environmental change in temperate North America, 1500 to the present / Gordon G. Whitney.
- Author
- Whitney, Gordon Graham.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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- Description
- xxxiv, 451 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-443) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Reconstructing the past -- Nature imposes ... -- The forest primeval -- Preservers of the ecological balance wheel -- European precedents -- Assault upon the forest. Part I. The farmer -- Assault upon the forest. Part II. The lumber industry -- Assault upon the forest. Part III. Fuelwood -- Predatory agriculture -- Grassland agriculture -- Forest influences -- A transported flora -- An impoverished fauna -- The legislated landscape -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JSE 96-110
- ISBN
- 052139452X (hardback)
- LCCN
- 93029701
- OCLC
- 28632556
- Author
- Whitney, Gordon Graham.
- Title
- From coastal wilderness to fruited plain : a history of environmental change in temperate North America, 1500 to the present / Gordon G. Whitney.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-443) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 96-110