The republic of nature : an environmental history of the United States /
Fiege, Mark.
The republic of nature : an environmental history of the United States / Mark Fiege. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xii, 584 pages). - - Weyerhaeuser environmental books .
Includes bibliographies and index.
-- Environmental history comes of age / Land of Lincoln -- Satan in the land : nature, the supernatural, and disorder in colonial New England -- By the laws of nature and of nature's God: Declaring American independence -- King cotton: the cotton plant and southern slavery -- Nature's nobleman: Abraham Lincoln and the improvement of America -- The nature of Gettysburg: environmental history and the Civil War -- Iron horses: nature and the building of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad -- Atomic sublime: toward a natural history of the bomb -- The road to Brown volume Board: an environmental history of the color line -- It's a gas: the United States and the oil shock of 1973-1974 -- Paths that reckon. William Cronon --
In The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred.
9780295804149
2021694613
Human ecology--History.--United States
Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
GF503 / .R478 2012
The republic of nature : an environmental history of the United States / Mark Fiege. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xii, 584 pages). - - Weyerhaeuser environmental books .
Includes bibliographies and index.
-- Environmental history comes of age / Land of Lincoln -- Satan in the land : nature, the supernatural, and disorder in colonial New England -- By the laws of nature and of nature's God: Declaring American independence -- King cotton: the cotton plant and southern slavery -- Nature's nobleman: Abraham Lincoln and the improvement of America -- The nature of Gettysburg: environmental history and the Civil War -- Iron horses: nature and the building of the first U.S. transcontinental railroad -- Atomic sublime: toward a natural history of the bomb -- The road to Brown volume Board: an environmental history of the color line -- It's a gas: the United States and the oil shock of 1973-1974 -- Paths that reckon. William Cronon --
In The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical premise that nothing in the nation's past can be considered apart from the natural circumstances in which it occurred.
9780295804149
2021694613
Human ecology--History.--United States
Nature--Effect of human beings on--History.--United States
Electronic Books.
GF503 / .R478 2012