| Description |
1 online resource (x, 255 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Book of essays which previously appeared in various journals or books or given as lectures. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The nature we have lost -- Paths across the levee -- History as natural history -- Transformation of the earth -- Arranging a marriage : ecology and agriculture -- A sense of soil -- Good farming and the public good -- Private, public, personal : Americans and the land -- The kingdom, the power, and the water -- Thinking like a river -- An end to ecstasy -- The shaky ground of sustainable development -- The ecology of order and chaos -- Restoring a natural order -- John Muir and the roots of American environmentalism -- The wealth of nature. |
| Summary |
Hailed as "one of the most eminent environmental historians of the West" by Alan Brinkley in The New York Times Book Review, Donald Worster has been a leader in reshaping the study of American history. Winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his book Dust Bowl, Worster has helped bring humanity's interaction with nature to the forefront of historical thinking. Now, in The Wealth of Nature, he offers a series of thoughtful, eloquent essays which lay out his views on environmental history, tying the study of the past to today's agenda for change. The Wealth of Nature captures the fruit of w. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- United States -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Landscape assessment -- United States -- History.
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Landscape assessment. |
| Indexed Term |
Environment Effects of Humans |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Environmental history and the ecological imagination |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Worster, Donald, 1941- Wealth of nature. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994, ©1993 0195092643 (OCoLC)32131418 |
| ISBN |
1423738519 (electronic book) |
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9781423738510 (electronic book) |
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160256003X |
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9781602560031 |
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1280441836 |
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9781280441837 |
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9780195092646 (Paper) |
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0195092643 (Paper) |
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9780195076240 |
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0195076249 |
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