UID:
almafu_9959228128602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (600 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-295-80414-9
Serie:
Weyerhaeuser environmental books
Anmerkung:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Environmental History Comes of Age by William Cronon -- Land of Lincoln -- 1. Satan in the Land: Nature, the Supernatural, and Disorder in Colonial New England -- 2. By the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: Declaring American Independence -- 3. King Cotton: The Cotton Plant and Southern Slavery -- 4. Nature's Nobleman: Abraham Lincoln and the Improvement of America -- 5. The Nature of Gettysburg: Environmental History and the Civil War -- 6. Iron Horses: Nature and the Building of the First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad -- 7. Atomic Sublime: Toward a Natural History of the Bomb -- 8. The Road to Brown v. Board: An Environmental History of the Color Line -- 9. It's a Gas: The United States and the Oil Shock of 1973-1974 -- Paths That Beckon -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Illustration Credits -- Index.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-295-99167-4
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geographie
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