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Subject(s)

• Environmentalism—United States—History [Browse]
• Environmental policy—United States—History [Browse]
• Green movement—United States—History [Browse]

Related name

• Sackman, Douglas Cazaux, 1968- [Browse]

Series

Blackwell companions to American history [More in this series]

Summary note

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, and not only presents a state-of-the-field as it stands, but also expands the current scholarship. With contributions from the founders of this unique branch of history, and the work of innovative young scholars, this Companion presents a bold vision for the future of environmental history, as well as a critical appreciation of its growth and development. The essays in this volume are presented in five parts, covering a diverse set of topics that range from American Indian environmental relations, oceans, and food, to borders, culture, and identity. Combining a complete historiography with the most recent research and trends, the Companion pushes the existing boundaries of the field and encourages new directions of study. --Book jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Paths toward home : landmarks of the field in environmental history / Louis S. Warren
• Air / Nancy Langston
• The living earth : history, Darwinian evolution, and the grasslands / Donald Worster
• Fire / Stephen J. Pyne
• Water / Rebecca Solnit
• Race and US environmental history / Colin Fisher
• Gender / Susan R. Schrepfer and Douglas Cazaux Sackman
• Class / Chad Montrie
• Body counts : tracking the human body through environmental history / Neil M. Maher
• From wilderness to hybrid landscapes : the cultural turn in environmental history / Richard White
• American Indian environmental relations / David Rich Lewis
• Cultures of nature : to ca. 1810 / Matthew Dennis
• Cultures of nature : nineteenth century / Aaron Sachs
• Cultures of nature : twentieth century / Finis Dunaway
• From wilderness prophets to tool freaks : post-World War II environmentalism / Andrew Kirk
• The black box in the garden : consumers and the environment / Tom McCarthy
• Flora / Frieda Knobloch
• Fauna : a prospectus for evolutionary history / Edmund Russell
• Water development : the plot thickens / Patty Limerick
• Rich crevices of inquiry : mining and environmental history / Katherine G. Morrissey
• Who cares about forests? How forest history matters / Ellen Stroud
• Cultivating an agro-environmental history / Sara M. Gregg
• Oceans : fusing the history of science and technology with environmental history / Helen M. Rozwadowski
• Cities and suburbs / Chris Sellers
• Energy and transportation / Brian Black
• The global ecological reach of the United States : exporting capital and importing commodities / Richard P. Tucker
• Food / Douglas Cazaux Sackman
• Blinded by history : the geographic dimension of environment and society / Richard Walker and Sarah Thomas
• The northeastern Pacific basin : an environmental approach to seascapes and littoral places / David Igler
• Earthlings : evolution and place in environmental history / Dan Flores
• "Most fruitful results" : transborder approaches to Canadian-American environmental history / Ted Binnema
• Seeing beyond our borders : US and non-US historiographies / Paul Sutter.

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ISBN

• 9781405156653 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1405156651 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009043696

OCLC

458891716

RCP

H - S

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