A Companion to American Environmental History

by Sackman, Douglas Cazaux

• ISBN13: 9781405156653
• ISBN10: 1405156651
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-10
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

Douglas Cazaux Sackman is Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. 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. His next book, Pacific Passages, will explore transpacific exchanges of culture and nature, focusing on the traffic in otters, whales, and trees.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

The Elements of Environmental History

Paths Toward Home: Landmarks of the Field in Environmental History

Air

The Living Earth: History, Darwinian Evolution, and the Grasslands

Fire

Water

Nature & the Construction of Society and Identity

Race

Gender

Class

Body Counts: Tracking the Human Body Through Environmental History

The Nature of American Culture

From Wilderness to Hybrid Landscapes: The Cultural Turn in Environmental History

American Indian Environmental Relations

Cultures of Nature: to ca. 1810

Cultures of Nature: Nineteenth Century

Cultures of Nature: Twentieth Century

From Wilderness Prophets to Tool Freaks: Post-World War II Environmentalism

The Black Box in the Garden: Consumers and the Environment

Contact Zones: Americans Conjoining the Natural World

Flora

Fauna: A Prospectus for Evolutionary History

"Water Development: The Plot Thickens"

Rich Crevices of Inquiry: Mining & Environmental History

Who Cares About Forests? How Forest History Matters

Cultivating an Agro-Environmental History

Oceans: Fusing the History of Science and Technology with Environmental History

Cities & Suburbs

Energy & Transportation

The Global Ecological Reach of the United States: Exporting Capital and Importing Commodities

Food

Outside of the Grid: Place, Borders and Scale

Blinded by History: The Geographic Dimension of Environment and Society

The Northeastern Pacific Basin: An Environmental Approach to Seascapes and Littoral Places

Earthlings: Evolution and Place in Environmental History

"Most Fruitful Results": Transborder Approaches to Canadian-American Environmental History

Seeing Beyond our Borders: U.S. and Non-U.S. Historiographies

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