アメリカ環境史必携 A Companion to American Environmental History (Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History)

Sackman, Douglas Cazaux (EDT)

Blackwell Pub（2014/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 696 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781118791417

Full Description

A Companion to American Environmental History gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history.

Provides a complete historiography of American environmental history
Brings the field up-to-date to reflect the latest trends and encourages new directions for the field
Includes the work of path-breaking environmental historians, from the founders of the field, to  contributions from innovative young scholars
Takes stock of the discipline through five topically themed parts, with essays ranging from American Indian Environmental Relations to Cities and Suburbs

Contents

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction xiii

Part I The Elements of Environmental History 1

1 Paths Toward Home: Landmarks of the Field in Environmental History 3
Louis S. Warren

2 Air 33
Nancy Langston

3 The Living Earth: History, Darwinian Evolution, and the Grasslands 51
Donald Worster

4 Fire 69
Stephen J. Pyne

5 Water 92
Rebecca Solnit

Part II Nature and the Construction of Society and Identity 97

6 Race and US Environmental History 99
Colin Fisher

7 Gender 116
Susan R. Schrepfer and Douglas Cazaux Sackman

8 Class 146
Chad Montrie

9 Body Counts: Tracking the Human Body Through Environmental History 163
Neil M. Maher

Part III The Nature of American Culture 181

10 From Wilderness to Hybrid Landscapes: The Cultural Turn in Environmental History 183
Richard White

11 American Indian Environmental Relations 191
David Rich Lewis

12 Cultures of Nature: To ca. 1810 214
Matthew Dennis

13 Cultures of Nature: Nineteenth Century 246
Aaron Sachs

14 Cultures of Nature: Twentieth Century 266
Finis Dunaway

15 From Wilderness Prophets to Tool Freaks: Post-World War II Environmentalism 285
Andrew Kirk

16 The Black Box in the Garden: Consumers and the Environment 304
Tom McCarthy

Part IV Contact Zones: Americans Conjoining the Natural World 325

17 Flora 327
Frieda Knobloch

18 Fauna: A Prospectus for Evolutionary History 345
Edmund Russell

19 Water Development: The Plot Thickens 375
Patty Limerick

20 Rich Crevices of Inquiry: Mining and Environmental History 394
Katherine G. Morrissey

21 Who Cares About Forests? How Forest History Matters 410
Ellen Stroud

22 Cultivating an Agro-Environmental History 425
Sara M. Gregg

23 Oceans: Fusing the History of Science and Technology with Environmental History 442
Helen M. Rozwadowski

24 Cities and Suburbs 462
Chris Sellers

25 Energy and Transportation 482
Brian Black

26 The Global Ecological Reach of the United States: Exporting Capital and Importing Commodities 505
Richard P. Tucker

27 Food 529
Douglas Cazaux Sackman

Part V Outside of the Grid: Place, Borders, and Scale 551

28 Blinded by History: The Geographic Dimension of Environment and Society 553
Richard Walker and Sarah Thomas

29 The Northeastern Pacifi c Basin: An Environmental Approach to Seascapes and Littoral Places 579
David Igler

30 Earthlings: Evolution and Place in Environmental History 595
Dan Flores

31 "Most Fruitful Results": Transborder Approaches to Canadian-American Environmental History 615
Ted Binnema

32 Seeing Beyond Our Borders: US and Non-US Historiographies 635
Paul Sutter

Index 653