Format:
1 online resource (383 pages)
ISBN:
9781442269972
Content:
This innovative book provides a dynamic-and often surprising-view of the range of environmental issues facing the United States today. Distinguished scholars examine the growing temporal, spatial, and thematic breadth of topics historical geographers are now exploring, giving a fascinating look at our changing relationship with nature.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. The American Environment Revisited -- Part I. NATURE GONE WILD -- Chapter One. Toward a Historical Geography of Human-Invasive Species Relations: How Kudzu Came to Belong in the American South -- Chapter Two. Unruly Domestic Environments: Do-It-Yourself Pesticides, Gender, and Regulation in Post-World War II Homes -- Chapter Three. From Noble Stag to Suburban Vermin: The Return of Deer to the Northeast United States -- Part II. PARKS AND RECREATION -- Chapter Four. Wild, Unpredictable, and Dangerous: A Historical Geography of Hazards and Risks in US National Parks -- Chapter Five. Migration and Social Justice in Wilderness Creation -- Chapter Six. Racialized Assemblages and State Park Design in the Jim Crow South -- Chapter Seven. Shredding Mountain Lines: GoPro, Mobility, and the Spatial Politics of Outdoor Sports -- Part III. LIVING IN THE CITY -- Chapter Eight. Frederick Law Olmsted's Abandoned San Francisco Park Plan -- Chapter Nine. Inventing Phoenix: Land Use, Politics, and Environmental Justice -- Chapter Ten. Fresh Kills Landfill: Landscape to Wastescape to Ecoscape -- Part IV. TRANSFORMING THE ENVIRONMENT -- Chapter Eleven. Progressive Legacy: Fred Besley and the Rise of Professional Forestry in Maryland -- Chapter Twelve. Gold vs. Grain: Oblique Ecologies of Hydraulic Mining in California -- Chapter Thirteen. Bridging the Florida Keys: Engineering an Environmental Transformation, 1904-1912 -- Chapter Fourteen. Florida's Springs: Growth, Tourism, and Politics -- Part V. EYE ON NATURE -- Chapter Fifteen. Reconsidering the Sublime: Images and Imaginative Geographies in American Environmental History -- Chapter Sixteen. American Environmental Photography -- Chapter Seventeen. Environments of the Imagination -- Afterword -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442269965
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442269965
Language:
English
