[Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures 01] • The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History by Merchant, Carolyn -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Historical Overview: Topics and Themes

The Physical Environment and Natural Resources Native Americans and the Land Pueblo Indians and the Southwest The Pueblo Indians and Spanish Settlement of the Southwest Micmac Indians and French Settlement in the Northeast Plains Indians and the Westward Movement The European Transformation of the Plains The Ecological Indian Conclusion

Chapter 2. The New England Wilderness Transformed, 1600 –1850

The New England Forest and Indian Land Use The Settlement of New England Colonial Land Use Marketing the Forest The Forest Economy Mind, Labor, and Nature The Idea of Wilderness Conclusion

Chapter 3. The Tobacco and Cotton South, 1600 –1900

The Chesapeake Environment and Indian-European Relations Tobacco Cultivation Slavery and Southern Agriculture Soil Exhaustion in the Tobacco South The Cotton South Environment and Society in the Cotton South Cotton Production Post –Civil War Sharecropping The Impact of the Boll Weevil Conclusion

Chapter 4. Nature and the Market Economy, 1750 –1850

The Inland Economy and the Environment Land Use in the Inland Economy The Inland Economy and the Worldview of Its People Market Farming The Transportation and Market Revolutions Nature and Ambivalence about the Market Economy The Hudson River School of Painters Artists and the Vanishing Indian Conclusion

Chapter 5. Western Frontiers: The Settlement of California and the Plains, 1820 –1930

Westward Expansion and the Settlement of California California Native Peoples and the Advent of Europeans The Multicultural Character of the Gold Rush Types of Gold Mining Environmental Effects of Hydraulic Mining Environmental Change in the Sierras European Settlement of the Great Plains The Rancher’s Frontier The Farmer’s Frontier Narratives of Blacks and Women The Dust Bowl of the 1930s Conclusion

Chapter 6. Urban Environments, 1850 –1960

Urbanization, Industry, and Energy Industrial Cities and Labor The City as Wilderness Air Pollution Garbage Noise Pollution Water Pollution The Sanitary City From City to Suburb Minorities and Pollution Conclusion

Chapter 7. Conservation and Preservation, 1785 –1950

Colonial Land Policy Federal Land Policy Land Law in the Arid West Lands for Railroads and Education The Conservation Movement Reclamation and Water Law The Preservation Movement Creation of the National Parks Conclusion

Chapter 8. Indian Land Policy, 1800 –1990

Indian Land Treaties Indian Removal The Dawes Act Indians and the Creation of the National Parks The Winters Decision The Indian New Deal and Civil Rights Indian Lands and Environmental Regulation Conclusion

Chapter 9. The Rise of Ecology, 1890 –1990

Ernst Haeckel and the Origins of Ecology Human Ecology The Organismic Approach to Ecology The Economic Approach to Ecology The Influence of Chaos Theory Conclusion

Chapter 10. The Era of Environmentalism, 1940 –2000

From Conservation to Environmentalism New Deal Conservation Population and the Environment Environmental Regulation Reactions to Environmental Regulation Environmental Organizations The Antitoxics Movement The Transformation of Consciousness Conclusion

Part II. American Environmental History A to Z: Agencies, Concepts, Laws, and People Part III. Chronology: An Environmental History Timeline Part IV. Resource Guide

Visual Resources: Films and Videos Electronic Resources

1. General Environmental History Resources 2. Environmental History Societies and Related Associations 3. Archival Materials 4. Bibliographies 5. Biographical Resources 6. Environmental Organizations and Information Centers 7. Environmental Philosophy and Ethics 8. Government Agencies 9. Natural History 10. Natural Resources 11. Regional Resources 12. Environmental Justice Resources 13. Teaching Resources 14. Course Syllabi in American Environmental History 15. General Environmental Education 16. Historical Overview Web Sites

Bibliographical Essay

Bibliography

1. What Is Environmental History? 2. Anthologies and Bibliographies 3. Biographies and Autobiographical Writings 4. African Americans and the Environment 5. American Indian Land Use 6. American Indian Religion 7. Asian Americans and the Environment 8. Environmental Philosophy and Landscape Perception 9. The Environmental Movement 10. The History of Ecology 11. The History of Environmental Science 12. Conservation History and Legislation 13. Agricultural History 14. Forest History 15. Mining History 16. Pollution 17. Range History 18. Water and Irrigation History 19. Wilderness Preservation 20. Wildlife 21. The Urban Environment

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