The American Environment Revisited

Environmental Historical Geographies of the United States

Geoffrey L. Buckley, Yolonda Youngs

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2018
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781442269972
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

This innovative book provides a dynamic—and often surprising—view of the range of environmental issues facing the United States today. A distinguished group of scholars examines the growing temporal, spatial, and thematic breadth of topics historical geographers are now exploring. Seventeen original chapters examine topics such as forest conservation, mining landscapes, urban environment justice, solid waste, exotic species, environmental photography, national and state park management, recreation and tourism, and pest control. Commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the seminal work The American Environment: Interpretations of Past Geographies, the book clearly shows much has changed since 1992. Indeed, not only has the range of issues expanded, but an increasing number of geographers are forging links with environmental historians, promoting a level of intellectual cross-fertilization that benefits both disciplines. As a result, environmental historical geographies today are richer and more diverse than ever. The American Environment Revisited offers a comprehensive overview that gives both specialist and general readers a fascinating look at our changing relationships with nature over time.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I: Nature Gone Wild
• Chapter 1: Toward a Historical Geography of Human–Invasive Species Relations
• Chapter 2: Unruly Domestic Environments
• Chapter 3: From Noble Stag to Suburban Vermin
• Part II: Parks and Recreation
• Chapter 4: Wild, Unpredictable, and Dangerous
• Chapter 5: Migration and Social Justice in Wilderness Creation
• Chapter 6: Racialized Assemblages and State Park Design in the Jim Crow South
• Chapter 7: Shredding Mountain Lines
• Part III: Living in the City
• Chapter 8: Frederick Law Olmsted’s Abandoned San Francisco Park Plan
• Chapter 9: Inventing Phoenix
• Chapter 10: Fresh Kills Landfill
• Part IV: Transforming the Environment
• Chapter 11: Progressive Legacy
• Chapter 12: Gold vs. Grain
• Chapter 13: Bridging the Florida Keys
• Chapter 14: Florida’s Springs
• Part V: Eye on Nature
• Chapter 15: Reconsidering the Sublime
• Chapter 16: American Environmental Photography
• Chapter 17: Environments of the Imagination
• Afterword