Republic of Nature An Environmental History of the United States

Name: Republic of Nature An Environmental History of the United States
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ISBN: 9780295993294

ISBN-10: 0295993294

ISBN-13: 9780295993294

Edition: 2012

Authors: Mark Fiege, William Cronon

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New in paperbackThe Republic of Nature reframes standard accounts of American history based on the simple but radical premise that historical events are shaped by natural circumstances. From the natural philosophy of the founding fathers to the environmental forces behind Brown v. Board of Education, the book's focus on nature reveals a powerful new perspective on the most familiar icons of U.S. history.Mark Fiege is an associate professor of history at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, and the author of Irrigated Eden: The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West."For readers swayed by Fiege's persuasive pages, American history will never look quite the same again. A…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 8/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 600
Size: 5.53" wide x 8.68" long x 1.33" tall
Weight: 2.024
Language: English



Foreword: Environmental History Comes of Age by William Cronon


Land of Lincoln



Satan in the Land: Nature, the Supernatural, and Disorder in Colonial New England



By the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: Declaring American Independence



King Cotton: The Cotton Plant and Southern Slavery



Nature's Nobleman: Abraham Lincoln and the Improvement of America



The Nature of Gettysburg: Environmental History and the Civil War



Iron Horses: Nature and the Building of the First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad



Atomic Sublime: Toward a Natural History of the Bomb



The Road to Brown V. Board: An Environmental History of the Color Line



It's a Gas: The United States and the Oil Shock of 1973-1974


Paths that Beckon


Acknowledgments


Notes


References


Illustration Credits


Index