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Down to earth = nature's role in American history /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Down to earth/ Ted Steinberg.
Reminder of title:	nature's role in American history /
Author:	Steinberg, Theodore,
Published:	Oxford ;Oxford University Press, : c2002.,
Description:	xiv, 347 p. :ill. ;25 cm.
Subject:	Human beings - Effect of environment on - United States -
Subject:	United States - Environmental conditions. -
Online resource:	https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=129731An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	0195302524 (electronic bk.)

Down to earth = nature's role in American history /
Steinberg, Theodore,1961-

Down to earthnature's role in American history /[electronic resource] :Ted Steinberg. - Oxford ;Oxford University Press,c2002. - xiv, 347 p. :ill. ;25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-331) and index.

Down to earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that places the environment at the very center of our story. Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and political development. Ranging from the colonists' attempts to impose order on the land to the modern efforts to sell the wilderness as a consumer good, packaged in national parks and Alaskan cruises, Steinberg reminds readers that many critical episodes in our history were, in fact, environmental events: the California Gold Rush, for example, or the great migration of African Americans to the North in the early twentieth century (in part the consequence of an insect infestation). Equally important, Steinberg highlights the ways in which we have envisioned nature, attempting to reshape and control it--from Thomas Jefferson's surveying plan that divided the national landscape into a grid, to the transformation of animals, crops, and even water into commodities (New Englanders started trading water rights by the early nineteenth century). From the Pilgrims to Disney World, Steinberg's narrative abounds with fascinating details and often disturbing insights into our interaction with the natural world.

Electronic reproduction.
Boulder, Colo. :
NetLibrary,
2005.

Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN: 0195302524 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

741934
Human beings
--Effect of environment on--United StatesSubjects--Geographical Terms:

690751
United States
--Environmental conditions.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GF27 / .S85 2002eb

Dewey Class. No.: 333.7/13/0973

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