A Companion to American Environmental History

by Editor: Douglas Cazaux Sackman (University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, USA)

ISBN13:
9781444323627
ISBN10:
1444323628
Format: eBook
Copyright: 2010-02-01
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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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

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 and the Construction of Society and Identity
Race and US Environmental History
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 and 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 and Suburbs
Energy and 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 Pacifi c 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: US and Non-US Historiographies
Index
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