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Losing Eden traces the environmental history and development of the American West and explains how the land has shaped and been shaped by the people who live there.
Sara Dant is Professor of History at Weber State University, USA. Her work focuses on environmental politics in the United States with a particular emphasis on the creation and development of consensus and bipartisanism. She is the author of several prize-winning articles on western environmental politics and co-author of the two-volume Encyclopedia of American National Parks (2004). Her recent articles cover a wide range of environmental topics, including "LBJ, Wilderness, and the Land and Water Conservation Fund," "Going with the Flow: Navigating to Stream Access Consensus," and "Field Notes: Brigham Young's 'All the People' Quote Quandary."
List of Figures viii
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction – The Nature of the West 1
1 Losing "Eden" 7
2 The West Transformed 24
3 Claiming and Taming the Land 44
4 The Great Barbecue 65
5 The Pivotal Decade 82
6 Conservation and Preservation 102
7 Roll On 118
8 Booming the West 135
9 Building Consensus 153
10 Environmental Backlash and the New West 172
Epilogue – Sustainability and the "Triumph of the Commons" 192
Index 206
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