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Down to earth: nature's role in American history

Theodore Steinberg c2013 © Oxford University Press
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  • 9780199797394 (paper)
Subject
  • Environmental History
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page v)
  • Acknowledgments to the Third Edition (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments to the Second Edition (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • PROLOGUE Rocks and History (page 3)
  • PART ONE Chaos to Simplicity
    • 1 Wilderness under Fire (page 11)
    • 2 A Truly New World (page 22)
    • 3 Reflections from a Woodlot (page 40)
  • PART TWO Rationalization and Its Discontents
    • 4 A World of Commodities (page 57)
    • 5 King Climate in Dixie (page 72)
    • 6 The Great Food Fight (page 89)
    • 7 Extracting the New South (page 99)
    • 8 The Unforgiving West (page 116)
    • 9 Conservation Reconsidered (page 136)
    • 10 Death of the Organic City (page 155)
  • PART THREE Consuming Nature
    • 11 Moveable Feast (page 173)
    • 12 The Secret History of Meat (page 187)
    • 13 America in Black and Green (page 203)
    • 14 Throwaway Society (page 225)
    • 15 Shades of Green (page 240)
    • 16 In Corporations We Trust (page 269)
  • Notes (page 301)
  • Bibliography (page 331)
  • Index (page 355)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JIH 34.1 (Summer. 2003): 96-97 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/43176
AgH 79.2 (Spring. 2005): 236-238 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3745059
JAH 90.2 (Sept. 2003): 612 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3659446
AHR 108.3 (June. 2003): 821-822 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/529629
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