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The American environment revisited : environmental historical geographies of the United States /
This innovative book provides a dynamic--and often surprising--view of the range of environmental issues facing the United States today. A distinguished group of scholars examines the growing temporal, spatial, and thematic breadth of topics historical geographers are now exploring. Seventeen origin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Nature gone wild
- Toward a historical geography of human-invasive species relations: How Kudzu came to belong In the American South / Derek H. Alderman
- Unruly domestic environments: Do-it-yourself pesticides, gender, and regulation in Post-World War II homes / Dawn Biehler
- From noble stag to suburban vermin: The return of deer to the Northeast United States / Bob Wilson
- Parks and recreation
- Wild, unpredictable, and dangerous: A historical geography of hazards and risks in U.S. National Parks / Yolonda Youngs
- Migration and social justice in wilderness creation / Katie Algeo and Collins Eke
- Racialized assemblages and state park design in the Jim Crow South / William E. O'Brien
- Shredding mountain lines: GoPro, mobility, and the spatial politics of outdoor sports / Annie Gilbert Coleman
- Living in the city
- Frederick Law Olmsted's abandoned San Francisco Park plan / Terence Young
- Inventing Phoenix: Land use, politics, and environmental justice / Abigail M. York and Christopher G. Boone
- Fresh kills landfill: Landscape to wastescape to ecoscape / Martin V. Melosi
- Transforming the environment
- Progressive legacy: Fred Besley and the rise of professional forestry in Maryland / Geoffrey L. Buckley
- Gold vs. grain: Oblique ecologies of hydraulic mining in California / Gareth Hoskins
- Bridging the Florida Keys: Engineering an environmental transformation, 1904-1912 / K. Maria D. Lane
- Florida's springs: Growth, tourism, and politics / Christopher F. Meindl
- Eye on nature
- Reconsidering the sublime: Images and imaginative geographies in American environmental history / Finis Dunaway
- American environmental photography / Steven Hoelscher
- Environments of the imagination / Dydia DeLyser.