Environment in American History - Nature and the Formation of the United States

"From the era before European contact to the present day, people living in what is now the United States have constantly been interacting with their environment. The use (and abuse) of natural resources - animals, plants, minerals, water, land - has produced prosperity, conflict, and destruction, reshaping both societies and ecology. The Environment in American History is a clear and comprehensive history that introduces students to the crucial role of the environment in America's past, present, and future. Drawing on current scholarship, Jeffrey L. Crane has created a vibrant and engaging survey that is a key resource for all students of American environmental history"--

List of contents

Preface
1 Faith in a Generous Land
2 Pathogens and Plows in the Land of Plenty
3 A Great Fur and Hide Marketplace
4 A Great Farming Nation
5 “A Newer Garden of Creation”
6 Naturally Horrifying: Environment in the Civil War
7 Western Lands of Wealth and Violence
8 Conserving Resources, Saving Sacred Spaces, and Cleaning the Cities: America in the Conservation Era
9 Restoring and Transforming the Land in the 1920s and 1930s
10 Abundance and Terror: Americans in World War II
11 Environmental Consensus in the Republic of Abundance
12 Environmental Reform and Schism
13 A Time of Environmental Contradictions
Epilogue

About the author

Jeff Crane is Associate Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of Finding the River: An Environmental History of the Elwha, and co-editor of Natural Protest: Essays on the History of American Environmentalism.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Crane, Jeff (University of the Incarnate Word Crane, Jeffrey L. Crane, Crane Jeff
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2014
• EAN: 9780415808712
• ISBN: 978-0-415-80871-2
• No. of pages: 454
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / General, SCIENCE / History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / North America, History of Science, Environmentalist thought & ideology, environmental science, engineering & technology, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Regional / International studies, History of the Americas, The Americas, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Environmental science, engineering and technology