The atlas of U.S. and Canadian environmental history
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The atlas of U.S. and Canadian environmental history
Routledge, 2003
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Bibliography: p. 212-231
Includes index
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Description
This visually dynamic historical atlas chronologically covers American environmental history through the use of four-color maps, photos, and diagrams, and in written entries from well known scholars.
Organized into seven categories, each chapter covers: agriculture * wildlife and forestry * land use and management * technology and industry * pollution and human heath * human habitats * and ideology and politics.
With valuable reference aids--including bibliographies, sources for further research, an extensive index, and newly designed maps--this is an indispensable tool for students and educators alike.
For a detailed contents, a generous selection of sample articles, and more, visit the website Atlas of US and Canadian Environmental History website.
Also includes 46 color maps.
Table of Contents
- Chapter One: European Exploration and the Colonial Era (1492-1770s) Introduction
- Columbian Exchange
- Domestication of the Land: From Wilderness to Farmland
- Early American and Canadian Forests
- European Exploitation and Mapping the Land
- Commodification of Nature: Export of Resources to the Old World
- Pre-Contact: Indigenous Populations in the United States and Canada
- Spanish In Florida and the Southwest
- New England Agrarian Commonwealths
- Chesapeake Bay Region: Early Tobacco South
- The Seigneurial System in New France
- Relationship to the Land: Indigenous and European Views Chapter Two: Expansion and Conflict (1770s-1850s) Introduction
- Farming in Southern Ontario
- Plantation Economy and Labor in the U.S. South
- The Fur Trade
- Great Lakes Timber
- Extermination of the Buffalo
- Public Land Policies: The U.S. Experience
- Crown Land Policies: The Canadian Experience
- The Age of Wood
- The Transportation Revolution
- Native Americans: Reservations and Relocations in the United States
- Canada's First Nations
- The Return to Nature: Transcendentalism and Utopian Communities
- Manifest Destiny and the Politics of U.S. Western Expansion Chapter Three: Landscape of Industrialization (1850s-1920s) Introduction
- Agricultural Innovations and Technology
- The Frontier: Cattle Ranching
- Harvesting the Pacific Northwest Forests
- Rebirth of American Forests
- Exploitation of Raw Materials for Industry
- Gold and Silver Mining in the West
- The Impact of Civil War
- Transcontinental Railroads
- Iron and Steel Production
- Water Supply and Wastewater Disposal in the United States
- Water Supply and Pollution in Canada
- Urbanization: Population Shifts and Migration Patterns
- The Built Environment in the City
- Social Darwinism and 'Survival of the Fittest' in the United States
- City Beautiful Movement
- Romanticism of Nature: American and Canadian Writers and Artists Chapter Four: The Conservation Era (1880s-1920s) Introduction
- Irrigation and Farming in the United States and Canada
- Forest Management: United States Forest Service
- Forest Management in Canada
- The Beginning of Wildlife Preservation in Canada
- Urban Parks and Landscape Architecture in the United States and Canada
- Winters v. U.S. and the Development of the Doctrine of Reserved Water Rights
- Appalachian Coal Mining
- Petroleum and the Early Oil Industry
- Urban Smoke Pollution in the United States
- The Canadian Commission of Conservation: Urban Planning
- The U.S. Conservation Movement
- The Conservation Movement in Canada
- The Origin of the Preservation Movement in the United States
- The Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909: An Expression of Progressivism Chapter Five: From the Depression to Atomic Power (1930s-1960s) Introduction
- The Dust Bowl in the Great Plains
- Chemicalization of Agriculture in the United States
- Game Management
- Sustainable Forestry in British Columbia and Ontario
- Western Dams in the United States
- The Atom Bomb and Nuclear Power
- Cons
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