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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 helped brin...

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Основен автор: Worster, Donald, 1941-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994, ℗♭1993.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=143878
Подобни документи: Print version:: Wealth of nature.
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.