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...

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Main Author: Worster, Donald
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Language:English
Published: Cary : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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505 0 |a 1. The Nature We Have Lost; 2. Paths Across the Levee; 3. History as Natural History; 4. Transformations of the Earth; 5. Arranging a Marriage: Ecology and Agriculture; 6. A Sense of Soil; 7. Good Farming and the Public Good; 8. Private, Public, Personal: Americans and the Land; 9. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Water; 10. Thinking Like a River; 11. An End to Ecstasy; 12. The Shaky Ground of Sustainable Development; 13. The Ecology of Order and Chaos; 14. Restoring a Natural Order; 15. John Muir and the Roots of American Environmentalism; 16. The Wealth of Nature; Notes; Index; A. 
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