Research Catalog

Title

So glorious a landscape : nature and the environment in American history and culture / by Chris J. Magoc.

Author

Magoc, Chris J., 1960-

Publication

Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 2002.

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Details

Description

xvi, 301 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

An anthology of period documents that illustrate important facets of Americans' changing relationship with nature.

Series Statement

American visions ; no. 5

Uniform Title

American visions (Wilmington, Del.) ; no. 5.

Subject

• Human ecology > United States > History > Sources
• Landscape changes > United States > History > Sources
• Ecology
• Human ecology
• Landscape changes
• United States > Environmental conditions > History > Sources
• United States

Genre/Form

• History.
• Sources.

Note

• "With documents and readings."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Indian ecology, American conquest -- Acoma Pueblo creation myth -- Tewa sky looms -- A hideous and desolate wilderness (1647) / William Bradford -- Potential of the new English Canaan (1632) / Thomas Morton -- Fate of the Abenaki in the colonial ecological revolution / Carolyn Merchant -- The Northwest Ordinance (1787) -- The untransacted destiny of the American people (1846) / William Gilpin -- Americans spread all over California (1846) / Monterey Californian -- Social and environmental degradation in the California gold country (1890) / Joaquin Miller -- The soreness of the land (1925) / Wintu Indian, Kate Luckie -- Nature's nation : the American landscape and the nature writing tradition -- Where I lived and what I lived for (1854) / Henry David Thoreau -- My first summer in the Sierra (1868) / John Muir -- Spring at the Capital (1871) / John Burroughs -- The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Austin -- The present at Tinker Creek (1974) / Annie Dillard -- Science, nature, and the emergence of an ecological ethic -- The animal creation and the importance of ephemera (1791) / William Bartram -- The destructiveness of man (1864) / George Perkins Marsh -- Human ecology and the habits of sanitation in the modern urban environment (1907) / Ellen Swallow Richards -- Land-use ethics and economic self-interest (1949) / Aldo Leopold -- Power and place : the meeting of social and environmental history -- Alice Hamilton explores the dangerous trades / Robert Gottlieb -- Preserving the hallowed ground of Dinosaur National Monument (1954) / David R. Brower -- The rape of the Appalachians (1962) / Harry M. Caudill -- What happened at Love Canal (1982) / Lois Gibbs -- The origins of the environmental justice movement (1997) / Eileen Maura McGurty -- The environmental era : responses to nature in distress -- Passenger pigeons (1949) / Robinson Jeffers -- The historic roots of our ecologic crisis (1967) / Lynn White, Jr. -- Polemic : industrial tourism and the national parks (1968) / Edward Abbey -- The fate of all living things (1977) / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The National Environmental Policy Act (1969) -- Population and global economic patterns (1990) / Lawrence W. Libby and Rodney L. Clouser -- Wise use : what do we believe? (1996) / Ron Arnold -- Women and ecology (1988) / Andree Collard with Joyce Contrucci.

Call Number

GE150

ISBN

• 0842026959
• 9780842026956
• 0842026967
• 9780842026963

LCCN

2001031070

OCLC

46822353

Author

Magoc, Chris J., 1960-

Title

So glorious a landscape : nature and the environment in American history and culture / by Chris J. Magoc.

Imprint

Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 2002.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

American visions ; no. 5

American visions (Wilmington, Del.) ; no. 5.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Form:

Online version: Magoc, Chris J., 1960- So glorious a landscape. Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 2002 (OCoLC)606653071

Research Call Number

*R-USLHG GE150 .M34 2002