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Book SynopsisA Companion to American Environmental History gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history by combining a complete historiography with the most recent research and trends.
Trade Review“A Companion to American Environmental History gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history.” (Native American Encyclopedia, 8 January 2014)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii
Introduction xiii
Part I The Elements of Environmental History 1
1 Paths Toward Home: Landmarks of the Field in Environmental History 3
Louis S. Warren
2 Air 33
Nancy Langston
3 The Living Earth: History, Darwinian Evolution, and the Grasslands 51
Donald Worster
4 Fire 69
Stephen J. Pyne
5 Water 92
Rebecca Solnit
Part II Nature and the Construction of Society and Identity 97
6 Race and US Environmental History 99
Colin Fisher
7 Gender 116
Susan R. Schrepfer and Douglas Cazaux Sackman
8 Class 146
Chad Montrie
9 Body Counts: Tracking the Human Body Through Environmental History 163
Neil M. Maher
Part III The Nature of American Culture 181
10 From Wilderness to Hybrid Landscapes: The Cultural Turn in Environmental History 183
Richard White
11 American Indian Environmental Relations 191
David Rich Lewis
12 Cultures of Nature: To ca. 1810 214
Matthew Dennis
13 Cultures of Nature: Nineteenth Century 246
Aaron Sachs
14 Cultures of Nature: Twentieth Century 266
Finis Dunaway
15 From Wilderness Prophets to Tool Freaks: Post-World War II Environmentalism 285
Andrew Kirk
16 The Black Box in the Garden: Consumers and the Environment 304
Tom McCarthy
Part IV Contact Zones: Americans Conjoining the Natural World 325
17 Flora 327
Frieda Knobloch
18 Fauna: A Prospectus for Evolutionary History 345
Edmund Russell
19 Water Development: The Plot Thickens 375
Patty Limerick
20 Rich Crevices of Inquiry: Mining and Environmental History 394
Katherine G. Morrissey
21 Who Cares About Forests? How Forest History Matters 410
Ellen Stroud
22 Cultivating an Agro-Environmental History 425
Sara M. Gregg
23 Oceans: Fusing the History of Science and Technology with Environmental History 442
Helen M. Rozwadowski
24 Cities and Suburbs 462
Chris Sellers
25 Energy and Transportation 482
Brian Black
26 The Global Ecological Reach of the United States: Exporting Capital and Importing Commodities 505
Richard P. Tucker
27 Food 529
Douglas Cazaux Sackman
Part V Outside of the Grid: Place, Borders, and Scale 551
28 Blinded by History: The Geographic Dimension of Environment and Society 553
Richard Walker and Sarah Thomas
29 The Northeastern Pacifi c Basin: An Environmental Approach to Seascapes and Littoral Places 579
David Igler
30 Earthlings: Evolution and Place in Environmental History 595
Dan Flores
31 "Most Fruitful Results": Transborder Approaches to Canadian-American Environmental History 615
Ted Binnema
32 Seeing Beyond Our Borders: US and Non-US Historiographies 635
Paul Sutter
Index 653
