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Dec 28, 2021 · Wilderness under fire -- A truly new world -- Reflections from a woodlot -- pt. 2. Rationalization and its discontents. A world of commodities -- King climate in Dixie -- The great food fight -- Extracting the New South -- The unforgiving West -- Conservation reconsidered -- Death of the organic city -- pt. 3.
history, that might give us confidence in staring it down. None of this is true. But let’s begin with the speed of change. The earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a wiping of the fossil record that it functioned as an evolutionary reset, the planet’s phylogenetic tree first
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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
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The text is ideal for courses in environmental history, environmental studies, urban studies, economic history, and American history. Passionately argued and thought-provoking, Down to Earth retells our nation's history with nature in the foreground--a perspective that will challenge our view of everything from Jamestown to Disney World.
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 ...
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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 ...
