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The Greater Plains : rethinking a region's environmental histories /
"The Greater Plains tells a new story of a region, stretching from the state of Texas to the province of Alberta, where the environments are as varied as the myriad ways people have inhabited them. These innovative essays document a complicated history of human interactions with a sometimes ple...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Brian Frehner and Kathleen A. Brosnan
- Part 1. Indigenous Grassland Adaptations over the Longue Durée. Before the Horse : Indigenous Food Systems on the Plains, 1300-1680 / Natale Zappia ; Travois Trails : Mobile Lifeways of Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Women / Leila Monaghan ; Bison Hunters and Prairie Fires : A View from the Northwestern Plains / María Nieves Zedeño, Christopher Roos, Kacy Hollenback, and Mary Hagen Erlick ; To Know the Story behind It : Indigenous Heritage and Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains / Geneviève Susemihl
- Part 2. Animals on the Great Plains. Kinscapes and the Buffalo Chase : The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Plains Métis Hunting Brigades / Nicole St-Onge and Brenda Macdougall ; Fauna and Flux on the Plains' Edge : Animal Kinship, Place Making, and Cherokee Relational Continuity / Clint Carroll ; Bison and Bookkeeping : Accounting for an Environmental Imagination in Great Plains Trading Posts / George Colpitts ; An Uncommon Nuisance : Cattle Feeding, Nuisance Complaints, and Legal Remedies on the Southern Plains / Jacob A. Blackwell
- Part 3. Modern Agriculture and the Transformation of the Plains. Measuring Expertise : Ralph Parshall and Watershed Management, 1920-1940 / Michael Weeks ; A "Plow to Save the Plains" : Conservation Tillage on the North American Grasslands, 1938-1973 / Joshua Nygren ; From Wheat to Wheaties : Minneapolis, the Great Plains, and the Transformation of American Food / Michael J. Lansing ; "Nature Rarely Establishes Sharp Boundaries" : Settler Society Agricultural Adaptation in the Great Plains Northwest / Molly P. Rozum
- Part 4. Energy Landscapes. Energy Heartland : How the Midcontinent Pipeline System Fueled and Fouled the Great Plains / Philip A. Wight ; Places of Overburden : Strip Mining and Reclamation on the Northern Great Plains / Ryan Driskell Tate ; Encountering Oil Cultures in a Prairie Town / Jonathan Peyton and Matthew Dyce ; Blows Like Hell : The Windy Plains of the West / Julie Courtwright.