The wealth of nature : environmental history and the ecological imagination /

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Hailed as "one of the most eminent environmental historians of the West" by Alan Brinkley in The New York Times Book Review, Donald Worster has been a leader in reshaping the study of American history. Winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his book Dust Bowl, Worster has helped brin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Worster, Donald, 1941- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994, ©1993.
Temas:
Human ecology > United States > History.
Landscape assessment > United States > History.
Paysages > Évaluation > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Human ecology
Landscape assessment
Ecologie.
United States
Environment > Effects of > Humans
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The nature we have lost
  • Paths across the levee
  • History as natural history
  • Transformation of the earth
  • Arranging a marriage : ecology and agriculture
  • A sense of soil
  • Good farming and the public good
  • Private, public, personal : Americans and the land
  • The kingdom, the power, and the water
  • Thinking like a river
  • An end to ecstasy
  • The shaky ground of sustainable development
  • The ecology of order and chaos
  • Restoring a natural order
  • John Muir and the roots of American environmentalism
  • The wealth of nature.

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