{"product_id":"the-greater-plains-9781496226471","title":"The Greater Plains","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays represents an attempt to move beyond degradation and exploitation as the defining ecological narratives of the Great Plains by examining the region through the interrelated themes of water, grasses, animals, and energy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Greater Plains\u003c\/i\u003e achieves the difficult task of weaving together research spanning eight hundred years of history into a coherent whole. The result is a bold interdisciplinary collection of research that will be valuable to scholars of history, archeology, Native American studies, ecology, and geography.\"—Jacob Schmidt, \u003ci\u003eSouth Dakota History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Greater Plains\u003c\/i\u003e provides a needed reinterpretation of environmental issues on the Great Plains by placing emphasis on the daily process of change rather than on major events.\"—Blake Johnson, \u003ci\u003eMontana: The Magazine of Western History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This compendium offers readers cutting-edge research about the Great Plains in a transnational context. Through various categories of analysis, each essay makes substantial contributions to the sociocultural, environmental, agricultural, political, and technological histories of the region.”—David D. Vail, author of \u003ci\u003eChemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America’s Grasslands since 1945\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The pieces are organized in such a manner as to provide multiple new insights and collectively reframe plains history as a set of interconnected and seamless stories that reveal human relationships to be the mainstays of the plains environment. This anthology will be a very useful contribution to environmental and Great Plains history.”—Leisl Carr Childers, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Size of the Risk: Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Brian Frehner and Kathleen A. Brosnan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1. Indigenous Grassland Adaptations over the \u003ci\u003eLongue Durée\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Before the Horse: Indigenous Food Systems on the Plains, 1300–1680\u003cbr\u003e Natale Zappia\u003cbr\u003e 2. Travois Trails: Mobile Lifeways of Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Women\u003cbr\u003e Leila Monaghan\u003cbr\u003e 3. Bison Hunters and Prairie Fires: A View from the Northwestern Plains\u003cbr\u003e María Nieves Zedeño, Christopher Roos, Kacy Hollenback, and Mary Hagen Erlick\u003cbr\u003e 4. To Know the Story behind It: Indigenous Heritage and Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains\u003cbr\u003e Geneviève Susemihl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2. Animals on the Great Plains\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Kinscapes and the Buffalo Chase: The Genesis of Nineteenth-Century Plains Métis Hunting Brigades\u003cbr\u003e Nicole St-Onge and Brenda Macdougall\u003cbr\u003e 6. Fauna and Flux on the Plains’ Edge: Animal Kinship, Place Making, and Cherokee Relational Continuity\u003cbr\u003e Clint Carroll\u003cbr\u003e 7. Bison and Bookkeeping: Accounting for an Environmental Imagination in Great Plains Trading Posts\u003cbr\u003e George Colpitts\u003cbr\u003e 8. An Uncommon Nuisance: Cattle Feeding, Nuisance Complaints, and Legal Remedies on the Southern Plains\u003cbr\u003e Jacob A. Blackwell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3. Modern Agriculture and the Transformation of the Plains\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Measuring Expertise: Ralph Parshall and Watershed Management, 1920–1940\u003cbr\u003e Michael Weeks\u003cbr\u003e 10. A “Plow to Save the Plains”: Conservation Tillage on the North American Grasslands, 1938–1973\u003cbr\u003e Joshua Nygren\u003cbr\u003e 11. From Wheat to Wheaties: Minneapolis, the Great Plains, and the Transformation of American Food\u003cbr\u003e Michael J. Lansing\u003cbr\u003e 12. “Nature Rarely Establishes Sharp Boundaries”: Settler Society Agricultural Adaptation in the Great Plains Northwest\u003cbr\u003e Molly P. Rozum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4. Energy Landscapes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. Energy Heartland: How the Midcontinent Pipeline System Fueled and Fouled the Great Plains\u003cbr\u003e Philip A. Wight\u003cbr\u003e 14. Places of Overburden: Strip Mining and Reclamation on the Northern Great Plains\u003cbr\u003e Ryan Driskell Tate\u003cbr\u003e 15. Encountering Oil Cultures in a Prairie Town\u003cbr\u003e Jonathan Peyton and Matthew Dyce\u003cbr\u003e 16. Blows Like Hell: The Windy Plains of the West\u003cbr\u003e Julie Courtwright\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409235812695,"sku":"9781496226471","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496226471.jpg?v=1730506080","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-greater-plains-9781496226471","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}