The wealth of nature : environmental history and the ecological imagination /
"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 helpe...
| Основен автор: | Worster, Donald, 1941- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1993.
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Съдържание:
- 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.