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. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.