So glorious a landscape : nature and the environment in American history and culture
An anthology of period documents that illustrate important facets of Americans' changing relationship with nature
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xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780842026956, 9780842026963, 0842026959, 0842026967
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Indian ecology, American conquest
Acoma Pueblo creation myth
Tewa sky looms
A hideous and desolate wilderness (1647) / William Bradford
Potential of the new English Canaan (1632) / Thomas Morton
Fate of the Abenaki in the colonial ecological revolution / Carolyn Merchant
The Northwest Ordinance (1787)
The untransacted destiny of the American people (1846) / William Gilpin
Americans spread all over California (1846) / Monterey Californian
Social and environmental degradation in the California gold country (1890) / Joaquin Miller
The soreness of the land (1925) / Wintu Indian, Kate Luckie
Nature's nation : the American landscape and the nature writing tradition
Where I lived and what I lived for (1854) / Henry David Thoreau
My first summer in the Sierra (1868) / John Muir
Spring at the Capital (1871) / John Burroughs
The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Austin
The present at Tinker Creek (1974) / Annie Dillard
Science, nature, and the emergence of an ecological ethic
The animal creation and the importance of ephemera (1791) / William Bartram
The destructiveness of man (1864) / George Perkins Marsh
Human ecology and the habits of sanitation in the modern urban environment (1907) / Ellen Swallow Richards
Land-use ethics and economic self-interest (1949) / Aldo Leopold
Power and place : the meeting of social and environmental history
Alice Hamilton explores the dangerous trades / Robert Gottlieb
Preserving the hallowed ground of Dinosaur National Monument (1954) / David R. Brower
The rape of the Appalachians (1962) / Harry M. Caudill
What happened at Love Canal (1982) / Lois Gibbs
The origins of the environmental justice movement (1997) / Eileen Maura McGurty
The environmental era : responses to nature in distress
Passenger pigeons (1949) / Robinson Jeffers
The historic roots of our ecologic crisis (1967) / Lynn White, Jr
Polemic : industrial tourism and the national parks (1968) / Edward Abbey
The fate of all living things (1977) / Leslie Marmon Silko
The National Environmental Policy Act (1969)
Population and global economic patterns (1990) / Lawrence W. Libby and Rodney L. Clouser
Wise use : what do we believe? (1996) / Ron Arnold
Women and ecology (1988) / Andree Collard with Joyce Contrucci
"With documents and readings."