So glorious a landscape nature and the environment in American history and culture /
An anthology of period documents that illustrate important facets of Americans' changing relationship with nature.
| Main Author: | Magoc, Chris J., 1960- |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Wilmington, Del. :
SR Books,
2002.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvi, 301 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series: |
American visions (Wilmington, Del.) ;
no. 5. |
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| Summary: |
An anthology of period documents that illustrate important facets of Americans' changing relationship with nature. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references. Indian ecology, American conquest -- Acoma Pueblo creation myth -- Tewa sky looms -- A hideous and desolate wilderness (1647) / William Bradford -- Potential of the new English Canaan (1632) / Thomas Morton -- Fate of the Abenaki in the colonial ecological revolution / Carolyn Merchant -- The Northwest Ordinance (1787) -- The untransacted destiny of the American people (1846) / William Gilpin -- Americans spread all over California (1846) / Monterey Californian -- Social and environmental degradation in the California gold country (1890) / Joaquin Miller -- The soreness of the land (1925) / Wintu Indian, Kate Luckie -- Nature's nation : the American landscape and the nature writing tradition -- Where I lived and what I lived for (1854) / Henry David Thoreau -- My first summer in the Sierra (1868) / John Muir -- Spring at the Capital (1871) / John Burroughs -- The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Austin -- The present at Tinker Creek (1974) / Annie Dillard -- Science, nature, and the emergence of an ecological ethic -- The animal creation and the importance of ephemera (1791) / William Bartram -- The destructiveness of man (1864) / George Perkins Marsh -- Human ecology and the habits of sanitation in the modern urban environment (1907) / Ellen Swallow Richards -- Land-use ethics and economic self-interest (1949) / Aldo Leopold -- Power and place : the meeting of social and environmental history -- Alice Hamilton explores the dangerous trades / Robert Gottlieb -- Preserving the hallowed ground of Dinosaur National Monument (1954) / David R. Brower -- The rape of the Appalachians (1962) / Harry M. Caudill -- What happened at Love Canal (1982) / Lois Gibbs -- The origins of the environmental justice movement (1997) / Eileen Maura McGurty -- The environmental era : responses to nature in distress -- Passenger pigeons (1949) / Robinson Jeffers -- The historic roots of our ecologic crisis (1967) / Lynn White, Jr. -- Polemic : industrial tourism and the national parks (1968) / Edward Abbey -- The fate of all living things (1977) / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The National Environmental Policy Act (1969) -- Population and global economic patterns (1990) / Lawrence W. Libby and Rodney L. Clouser -- Wise use : what do we believe? (1996) / Ron Arnold -- Women and ecology (1988) / Andree Collard with Joyce Contrucci. Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL. Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL. An anthology of period documents that illustrate important facets of Americans' changing relationship with nature. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xvi, 301 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781461666271 1461666279 |