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The republic of nature : an environmental history of the United States / Mark Fiege.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 584 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295804149
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GF503 .R478 2012
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
-- Environmental history comes of age / William Cronon -- 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.
Subject: 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

-- Environmental history comes of age / William Cronon -- 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.

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.

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