American Environmental History

Louis S. Warren

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781444339390
• eBook ISBN: 9781119477075
• Edition: 2
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

Explore how the peoples of America understood and changed their natural environments, remaking their politics, culture, and societies

In this newly revised Second Edition of American Environmental History, celebrated environmental historian and author Louis S. Warren provides readers with insightful examination of how different American peoples created and reacted to environmental change and threats from the era before Columbus to the COVID-19 pandemic.

You'll find concise editorial introductions to each chapter and interpretive interventions throughout this meticulous collection of essays and historical documents. This book covers topics as varied as Native American relations with nature, colonial invasions, American slavery, market expansion and species destruction, urbanization, Progressive and New Deal conservation, national parks, the environmental impact of consumer appetites, environmentalism and the backlash against it, environmental justice, and climate change.

This new edition includes twice as many primary documents as the First Edition, along with findings from related fields such as Native American history, African American history, geography, and environmental justice.

Ideal for students and researchers studying American environmental history and for those seeking historical perspectives on contemporary environmental challenges, this book will earn a place in the libraries of anyone with an interest in American history and the impact of American peoples on the environment and the world around them.

Louis S. Warren is the W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at the University of California, Davis. He is a two-time winner of the Caughey Western History Association Prize, a Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the Albert Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association and the Bancroft Prize in American History.

 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: What Is Environmental History?
• Chapter 1: The Natures of Indian America Before Columbus
• Chapter 2: The Other Invaders: Deadly Diseases and Extraordinary Animals
• Chapter 3: Colonial Natures: Marketing the Countryside
• Chapter 4: Slavery and the South Through Environmental History
• Chapter 5: Frontier Expansion and Waste
• Chapter 6: Environmental Reform in City and Factory
• Chapter 7: Where the Wild Things Went: Emerging Markets and Vanishing Animals
• Chapter 8: The Many Uses of Progressive Conservation
• Chapter 9: National Parks and the Trouble with Wilderness
• Chapter 10: Conservation and the New Deal: Nature and Nation in Crisis
• Chapter 11: Something in the Wind: Radiation, Pesticides, Air Pollution and Population
• Chapter 12: Environmental Protection and the Environmental Movement
• Chapter 13: Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice
• Chapter 14: Global Consumers and Global Environments
• Chapter 15: Backlash Against the Environmental Movement
• Chapter 16: Shifting Scale: Climate Change and Global Peril
• Index
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