| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 584 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome. |
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data file |
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Weyerhaeuser environmental books
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Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 509-556) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword : 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 -- 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 -- Road to Brown v. 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| 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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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on. |
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United States -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
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Ecology. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: The republic of nature Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2012. 9780295991672 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2011035457 |
| ISBN |
9780295804149 ebook |
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0295804149 |
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9780295991672 cloth alkaline paper |
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0295991674 |
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