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Major problems in American environmental history : documents and essays
- Title
- Major problems in American environmental history : documents and essays / edited by Carolyn Merchant.
- Publication
- Lexington, Mass. : D.C. Heath, ©1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Merchant, Carolyn.
- Description
- xviii, 568, xix pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Major problems in American history series
- Uniform Title
- Major problems in American history series
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xiii-xix, 3rd group).
- Contents
- What is environmental history? -- Native American ecology and European contact -- The New England forest in the seventeenth century -- Soil exhaustion in the early Tobacco South -- Farm ecology in the early republic -- Nature versus civilization in the nineteenth century -- The Cotton South before and after the Civil War -- Mining California's earth in the nineteenth century -- Great Plains grasslands exploited -- Resource conservation in an industrializing society -- Wilderness preservation at the turn of the century -- Urban pollution and reform in the twentieth century -- The emergence of ecology in the twentieth century -- From conservation to environment in the mid-twentieth century -- The contemporary environmental movement.
- ISBN
- 0669249939
- 9780669249934
- LCCN
- 92081866
- OCLC
- ocm27252400
- 27252400
- SCSB-14570653
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library