Northwest lands, northwest peoples : readings in environmental history /
Annotation It can be said that all of human history is environmental history, for all human action happens in an environment-in a place. This collection of essays explores the environmental history of the Pacific Northwest of North America, addressing questions of how humans have adapted to the nort...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
---|---|
Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Seattle, Wash. :
University of Washington Press,
©1999.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Setting the Pacific Northwest stage: the influence of the natural environment / Eric C. Ewert
- Place: an argument for bioregional history / Dan Flores
- A natural history of the Puget Sound basin / Arthur R. Kruckeberg
- From where we are standing: the sense of place and environmental history / William L. Lang
- Willamette Eden: the ambiguous legacy / William G. Robbins
- Footprints and pathways: the urban imprint on the Pacific Northwest / Carl Abbott
- Salmon, sedentism, and cultivation: toward an environmental prehistory of the Northwest Coast / Douglas Deur
- Mobility as a factor limiting resource use on the Columbia Plateau / Eugene S. Hunn
- Unusual gardens: the Nez Perce and wild horticulture on the Eastern Columbia plateau / Alan G. Marshall
- Megafauna of the Columbia Basin, 1800-1840: Lewis and Clark in a game sink / Paul S. Martin and Christine R. Szuter
- Land divided: Yakama tribal land use in the Federal Allotment era / Barbara Leibhardt Wester
- Salmon in the Columbia basin: from abundance to extinction / Dale D. Goble
- The Northwest's hydroelectric heritage / Michael C. Blumn
- Fish first!: the changing ethics of ecosystem management / Carolyn Merchant
- Ecological influences of the introduction of livestock on Pacific Northwest ecosystems / Kathleen A. Dwire, Bruce A. McIntosh, and J. Boone Kauffman
- Environmental change in the northern Rockies: settlement and livestock grazing in southwestern Montana, 1860-1995 / William Wyckoff and Katherine Hansen
- Creating a hybrid landscape: irrigated agriculture in Idaho / Mark Fiege
- Cultural perception of the irrigated lanscape in the Pacific Northwest / Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
- Human and ecological change in the inland Northwest forests / Nancy Langston
- Getting out the cut: a history of National Forest management in the northern Rockies / Paul W. Hirt
- Changing forests-changing needs: using the Pacific Northwests westside forests, past and present / Thomas R. Cox
- Mining, environment, and historical change in the inland Northwest / Katherine G. Morrissey
- Western smelters and the problem of smelter smoke / Katherine Aiken
- Epilogue: environmental history and human perception / William Dietrich.