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A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic ...
May 9, 2002 · Ted Steinberg’s Down to Earth does just that. Down to Earth chronologically explores the indefatigable role that nature has played in the formation of the United States from the earliest times of the American Indians to the desperate times of the modern age, where places like Disney World sell nature as an attraction for guests.
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Jamestown—and introduces the basic geology of North America. The three chapters in Part 1, “Chaos to Simplicity,” take the reader quickly from Paleoindians to the rise of the market in the early nineteenth century. The seven chapters in Part 2, “Rationalization and Its Discontents,” focus on key issues in the nineteenth
May 9, 2002 · A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic ...
