Nature And the Environment in Nineteenth-century American Life

Informationen zum Autor Brian Black has been a college professor since 1992 at Kansas Christian College and at Penn View Bible Institute. He received an MS from Northeastern University, an MA from Clark Summit University, and a PhD from Greenwich University. Black's first book, The Holiness Heritage, gives the formation and history of the Holiness Movement throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has four children and lives with his wife in central Pennsylvania. Klappentext The nineteenth-century saw a significant transformation in the United States. In one short century, the nation had seen the populating of the Great Plains and West, the decimation of native Indian tribes, the growth of national transportation and communication networks, and the rise of major cities. The century also witnessed the destruction of the nation's forests, battles over land and water, and the ascent of agribusiness. With these changes in resource use patterns and values came a concordant shift in attitudes toward nature. Conservation and preservation emerged as watchwords for the 1900s. The century that started with an attitude of environmental conquest thus ended by embracing conservation and a new environmental awareness. Zusammenfassung Provides an understanding of how people actually lived! based on research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: The Wonder of Nature Expanding Colonial Systems Variations on the Agricultural Ideal Technology Leads the Day Corridors of Trade Speaking for Nature Civil War The Ethic of Extraction Factories in the Field Cities and Worker Reform Prioritizing Nature Epilogue: The New Niagara and the Preservation Ethic

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Brian Black, Brian C. Black, Black Brian C.
• Verlag: Abc Clio Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: 7 bis 17 Jahre
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.04.2006
• EAN: 9780313332012
• ISBN: 978-0-313-33201-2
• Seiten: 239
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Serien: Daily Life Through History; Daily Life through History; The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series: Nature and the Environment in Everyday Life
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; American History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), History of the Americas