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This innovative book provides a dynamic-and often surprising-view of the range of environmental issues facing the United States today. Distinguished scholars examine the growing temporal, spatial, and thematic breadth of topics historical geographers are now exploring, giving a fascinating look at our changing relationship with nature.
List of contents
Preface
Craig E. Colten and Lary M. Dilsaver
Introduction
Geoffrey L. Buckley and Yolonda Youngs
Part I: Nature Gone Wild
Chapter 1: Toward a Historical Geography of Human-Invasive Species Relations: How Kudzu Came to Belong in the American South
Derek H. Alderman
Chapter 2: Unruly Domestic Environments: Do-It-Yourself Pesticides, Gender, and Regulation in Post-World War II Homes
Dawn Biehler
Chapter 3: From Noble Stag to Suburban Vermin: The Return of Deer to the Northeast United States
Bob Wilson
Part II: Parks and Recreation
Chapter 4: Wild, Unpredictable, and Dangerous: A Historical Geography of Hazards and Risks in U.S. National Parks
Yolonda Youngs
Chapter 5: Migration and Social Justice in Wilderness Creation
Katie Algeo and Collins Eke
Chapter 6: Racialized Assemblages and State Park Design in the Jim Crow South
William E. O'Brien
Chapter 7: Shredding Mountain Lines: GoPro, Mobility, and the Spatial Politics of Outdoor Sports
Annie Gilbert Coleman
Part III: Living in the City
Chapter 8: Frederick Law Olmsted's Abandoned San Francisco Park Plan
Terence Young
Chapter 9: Inventing Phoenix: Land Use, Politics, and Environmental Justice
Abigail M. York and Christopher G. Boone
Chapter 10: Fresh Kills Landfill: Landscape to Wastescape to Ecoscape
Martin V. Melosi
Part IV: Transforming the Environment
Chapter 11: Progressive Legacy: Fred Besley and the Rise of Professional Forestry in Maryland
Geoffrey L. Buckley
Chapter 12: Gold vs. Grain: Oblique Ecologies of Hydraulic Mining in California
Gareth Hoskins
Chapter 13: Bridging the Florida Keys: Engineering an Environmental Transformation, 1904-1912
K. Maria D. Lane
Chapter 14: Florida's Springs: Growth, Tourism, and Politics
Christopher F. Meindl
Part V: Eye on Nature
Chapter 15: Reconsidering the Sublime: Images and Imaginative Geographies in American Environmental History
Finis Dunaway
Chapter 16: American Environmental Photography
Steven Hoelscher
Chapter 17: Environments of the Imagination
Dydia DeLyser
Afterword
William Wyckoff
About the author
Geoffrey L. Buckley is professor of geography at Ohio University. Yolonda Youngs is associate professor in the department of global studies at Idaho State University.
