Nature's Nation An Environmental History of the United States

Name: Nature's Nation An Environmental History of the United States
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ISBN: 9780155002197

ISBN-10: 0155002198

ISBN-13: 9780155002197

Edition: 1998

Authors: John Opie

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Nature's Nation examines our consumer-based industrial and urban society and notes the heavy price paid to create this by placing the political, economic, social and cultural development of the U.S within an environmental framework.

Book details

List price: $151.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Harcourt College Publishers
Publication date: 1/20/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Introduction: What is American Environmental History?



Europeans Take Command.



O Strange New World.



The World We Have Lost: People of the Land



Shaping the National Landscape.



The Federal Geography.



When the United States Was an Undeveloped Country.



Unifying American space



Romantic America, and Utopia: Laying Claim to Paradise.



Creating the Industrial Infrastructure.



Determining America's environmental future: the rush to industrialize



Reshaping the Nation: The Built Environment and Public Works.



The Environmental Costs of Industrial America: Cities and Landscapes in Trouble.



From Nature's Water to Public Works Water: America Becomes a Hydraulic Civilization.



Hitting the Wall: Environmental Limits in Appalachia and on the Plains.



Rethinking America: The Making of Environmentalism.



Recovering ï¿½Original Americaï¿½: The Wilderness Movement.



Environmentalism Enters the American Mainstream: Environmental Science, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and Public Awareness



Risk and Regulation: Environmentalism Enters the Modern Era.



Into the Twenty-First Century: The United States and the Global Environment