Machine generated contents note: California Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 2000-2017 / "The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492" -- Documents / Ben J. Wattenberg. "The Watchful World" / William M. Denevan -- Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden / Richard Nelson -- Images of Florida Indians Planting and Making an offering of a Stag to the Sun / Gilbert Wilson -- Map of Bitterroot Forest Reserve / Gilbert Wilson -- Article / Gilbert Wilson -- "Virgin Soil Epidemics" / Gilbert Wilson -- Documents / Alfred W. Crosby -- "Saynday and Smallpox: The White Man's Gift" / Alfred W. Crosby -- Rethinking Virgin Soil Epidemics: COVID-19 Death Rates by Age and Race / Frank Givens -- "Three Years among the Indians and Mexicans" / Frank Givens -- "Horse Breeding" / Thomas James -- "Wild Horses at Play" / John C. Ewers -- Article / George Catlin -- "A World of Fields and Fences" / George Catlin -- Documents / William Cronon -- "Reasons and Considerations Touching the Lawfulness of Removing Out of England into the Parts of America" / William Cronon -- "Livestock and War in Colonial New England" / Robert Cushman -- Spanish Priests Joseph Antonio Murguia and Thomais de la Pena Explain Indian Frustration with Settler Livestock in Colonial California / Lion Gardener -- Article / Lion Gardener -- "Towards an Environmental History of the US South" / Lion Gardener -- Documents / Mart Stewart -- Newspaper Advertisements for African Slaves "With Knowledge of Rice Growing" / Mart Stewart -- Wilderness Songs of Enslaved People: "Slave Songs of the United States" / Mart Stewart -- Testimony from Former Slaves / William Francis Allen -- "The Rice District" / William Francis Allen -- Article / Frederick Law Olmsted -- "Wasty Ways': Stories of American Settlement" / Frederick Law Olmsted -- Documents / Alan Taylor -- "The Wasty Ways of Pioneers" / Alan Taylor -- "The Wonder of the Passenger Pigeon" / James Fenimore Cooper -- Reporting on Passenger Pigeons / John J. Audubon -- "One Bird Survives Millions" / John J. Audubon -- "What I Saw in California" / Frederick J. Haskin -- "Essay on American Scenery" / Edwin Bryant -- Article / Thomas Cole -- "The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866" / Thomas Cole -- Documents / Charles E. Rosenberg -- The Conquest of Pestilence in New York City / Charles E. Rosenberg -- Underground Life -- Health Officers Clean Out a Dive / Charles E. Rosenberg -- San Francisco Fire, 1850s / Charles E. Rosenberg -- Los Angeles Crowd Welcomes Water Arriving in Aqueduct and Dynamited Portion of LA Aqueduct / Charles E. Rosenberg -- Alice Hamilton Explains the Perils of the Industrial Environment / Charles E. Rosenberg -- Article / Charles E. Rosenberg -- "Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy Redux: Another Look at the Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850" / Charles E. Rosenberg -- Documents / Dan Flores -- "Memories of Buffalo Hunting" / Dan Flores -- Curing Hides and Bones / Billy Dixon -- Thanksgiving Menu, 1886 / Billy Dixon -- Plundering the Sea: Baleen and the Destruction of Whales / Drake Hotel -- "Whalebone: Its Production and Utilization" / Drake Hotel -- Advertisement for Thomson's Glove-Fitting Corset / Charles H. Stevenson -- Destroying Birds to Make Hats / Charles H. Stevenson -- Cruelties of Fashion: Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds / Charles H. Stevenson -- Article / Charles H. Stevenson -- "Conservation, Subsistence, and Class at the Birth of Superior National Forest" / Charles H. Stevenson -- Documents / Benjamin Heber Johnson -- "The Meaning of Conservation" / Benjamin Heber Johnson -- Special Supervisor of the Yellowstone and Teton Timber Reserves, Talks Interestingly of the Summer's Work / Gifford Pinchot -- Women Activists Take on Bird Hat Fashion: "Woman's Heartlessness" / A.A. Anderson -- Charles Askins Describes Game and Hunting Conditions in the South / Celia Thaxter -- Ben Senowin Testifies about Being Apprehended for Game Law Violations / Celia Thaxter -- Article / Celia Thaxter -- "The Trouble with Wilderness, or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" / Celia Thaxter -- Documents / William Cronon -- John Muir on Saving Hetch Hetchy / William Cronon -- Peter Oscar Little Chief Requests Permission to Hunt in Glacier Park / William Cronon -- The National Parks Act (1916) and The Wilderness Act (1964) / William Cronon -- Article / William Cronon -- "A New Deal Body Politic: Landscape, Labor, and the Civilian Conservation Corps" / William Cronon -- Documents / Neil M. Maher -- Farmer's Daughter, Describes the New Deal / Neil M. Maher -- "Roosevelt Riddles" / Ann Marie Lowe -- Photo Gallery -- Arthur Rothstein and Dorothea Lange Capture the Dust Bowl / Russell Moore -- Eli Gorman and Deneh Bitsilly Remember New Deal Livestock Reduction in Navajo Country / Russell Moore -- Article / Russell Moore -- "Reconstructing Environmentalism: Complex Movements, Diverse Roots" / Russell Moore -- Documents / Robert Gottlieb -- "Fallout:The Silent Killer" / Robert Gottlieb -- "Silent Spring" / Stephen M. Spencer -- "The Desolate Year" / Rachel Carson -- "The Population Bomb" / Monsanto Corporation -- The Air Pollution Control Act (1955), and the Clean Air Act, with amendments (2001) / Hugh Moore -- From United Farm Workers, "Pesticides: The Poisons We Eat" / Hugh Moore -- Article / Hugh Moore -- "Richard Nixon and the Triumph of Environmentalism" / Hugh Moore -- Documents / J. Brooks Flippen -- The National Environmental Policy Act (1969) / J. Brooks Flippen -- The Endangered Species Act (1973) / J. Brooks Flippen -- "The New Naturalism" / J. Brooks Flippen -- "Earth Day" / Daniel Yankelovich -- "Black Environmentalists See Another Side of Pollution" / Gaylord Nelson -- "The Population Bomb" / David Hendin -- Article / Paul Ehrlich -- "From NIMBY to Civil Rights: The Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement" / Paul Ehrlich -- Documents / Eileen Maura McGurty -- Lois Gibbs on Toxic Waste and Environmental Justice / Eileen Maura McGurty -- United Church of Christ, "Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States" / Eileen Maura McGurty -- The Letter that Shook a Movement / Eileen Maura McGurty -- Flint Water Advisory Task Force, "Final Report" / Eileen Maura McGurty -- Article / Eileen Maura McGurty -- "Spaces of Consumption in Environmental History" / Eileen Maura McGurty -- Documents / Matt Klingle -- Paul C. Standley Reports on Bananas in Honduras / Matt Klingle -- Impact of Coffee Farming on Indigenous Peoples / Matt Klingle -- State of Denial -- California's Appetite for World Resources / Matt Klingle -- Article / Matt Klingle -- "The Specter of Environmentalism': Wilderness, Environmental Politics, and the Evolution of the New Right" / Matt Klingle -- Documents / James Morton Turner -- Map of US Federal Lands / James Morton Turner -- "Special Report -- The Specter of Environmentalism: The Threat of Environmental Groups" / James Morton Turner -- Joe Lane (National Cattlemen's Association) and Larry Echohawk (Shoshone and Bannock Tribes of Idaho) Testify about the Sagebrush Rebellion / Tim Peckinpaugh -- "The Politics of Plunder" / Tim Peckinpaugh -- "The Costs of Environmental Overregulation" / Carl Pope -- "Jobs vs. Environment' Myth" / S. Fred Singer -- Article / Mark Douglas Whitaker -- "Reducing the Future to Climate: A Story of Climate Determinism and Reductionism" / Mark Douglas Whitaker -- Documents / Mike Hulme -- "Never Mind the Population Explosion" / Mike Hulme -- "World Population Prospects" / United Nations / Ben J. Wattenberg -- Economic Growth and Air Emission Trends / Ben J. Wattenberg -- The Relentless Rise of Carbon Dioxide / Ben J. Wattenberg -- The Acid Rain Experience: "Sulfur Dioxide Air Quality, 1980-2018" / Ben J. Wattenberg -- The Triumph of Diplomacy? Atmospheric CFC Concentrations / Ben J. Wattenberg -- California Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 2000-2017 / Ben J. Wattenberg.
Summary:
"What is environmental history? At its most fundamental level, environmental historians explore the changing relations between people and nature. Such a broad definition can be more of a hindrance than a help, however. So let's be more specific. Environmental historians study how people have lived in the natural systems of the planet, and how they have perceived nature and reshaped it to suit their own idea of good living. More than this, the field of environmental history encompasses the investigation of how nature, once changed, requires people to reshape their cultures, economies, and politics to meet new realities. As we'll see in the pages that follow, such processes are not without social friction and unrest. People in history have battled mightily, and often, over what constitutes the best way of living in nature. As a field of study, environmental history has been around for more than a generation. To many, it is most familiar as the history of the environmental movement. Obviously, the kinds of relations and processes I am discussing here go far beyond that, but, to be sure, the history of environmental reform and politics are central to the field."-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Blackwell readers in American social and cultural history ; 12
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