So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and CultureSo Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture surveys the vast and interdisciplinary subject of American natural and environmental studies. It examines the literary landscape that has inspired a local, regional, and national sense of place; explores the dynamic meaning and significance of nature across time, place, culture, and gender; and looks at the essence and history of environmental change. The first all-encompassing introductory survey of environ-mental history and cultural studies, this volume provides students and scholars with carefully chosen selections from major essayists, naturalists, preachers, geographers,novelists, scientists, and historians whose works have shaped the fields of literary ecology and environmental history. The essays trace the changing American landscape and ideas about nature from the seventeenth century to the present. By analyzing a range of material, So Glorious a Landscape provides a fresh perspective on what nature is in American life, what forces have shaped its profound place and changing definition, and what the work of environmental historians tells about the relationship of nature, culture, and power in America. So Glorious a Landscape is an excellent resource for courses in American studies, environmental history, and American culture. |
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Contents
Acoma Pueblo Creation Myth | 20 |
Tewa Sky Looms | 23 |
A Hideous and Desolate Wilderness 1647 WILLIAM BRADFORD | 24 |
Potential of the New English Canaan 1632 THOMAS MORTON | 27 |
Fate of the Abenaki in the Colonial Ecological Revolution CAROLYN MERCHANT | 31 |
The Northwest Ordinance 1787 | 39 |
The Untransacted Destiny of the American People 1846 WILLIAM GILPIN | 43 |
Americans Spread All Over California 1846 MONTEREY CALIFORNIAN | 45 |
Human Ecology and the Habits of Sanitation in the Modern Urban Environment 1907 ELLEN SWALLOW RICHARDS | 142 |
LandUse Ethics and Economic SelfInterest 1949 ALDO LEOPOLD | 145 |
Power and Place The Meeting of Social and Environmental History | 151 |
Alice Hamilton Explores the Dangerous Trades ROBERT GOTTLIEB | 172 |
Preserving the Hallowed Ground of Dinosaur National Monument 1954DAVID BROWER | 178 |
The Rape of the Appalachians 1962 HARRY M CAUDILL | 181 |
What Happened at Love Canal 1982 LOIS GIBBS | 190 |
The Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement 1997 EILEEN MAURA McGURTY | 198 |
Social and Environmental Degradation in the California Gold Country 1890 JOAQUIN MILLER | 46 |
The Soreness of the Land 1925 WINTU INDIAN KATE LUCKIE | 50 |
Natures Nation The American Landscape and the Nature Writing Tradition | 53 |
Where I Lived and What I Lived For 1854 HENRY DAVID THOREAU | 74 |
My First Summer in the Sierra 1868 JOHN MUIR | 80 |
Spring at the Capital 1871 JOHN BURROUGHS | 84 |
The Land of Little Rain 1903 MARY AUSTIN | 92 |
The Present at Tinker Creek 1974 ANNIE DILLARD | 96 |
Nature and the Emergence of an Ecological Ethic | 103 |
The Animal Creation and the Importance of Ephemera 1791 WIILIAM BARTRAM | 130 |
The Destructive ness of Man 1864 GEORGE PERKINS MARSH | 136 |
The Environ mental Era Responses to Nature in Distress | 217 |
Passenger Pigeons 1949 ROBINSON JEFFERS | 245 |
The Historic Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis 1967 LYNN WHITE JR | 248 |
Polemic Industrial Tour ism and the National Parks 1968 EDWARD ABBEY | 256 |
The Fate of All Living Things 1977 LESLIE MARMON SILKO | 267 |
The National Environmental Policy Act | 271 |
Population and Global Economic Patterns 1990 LAWRENCE W LIBBY AND RODNEY L CLOUSER | 275 |
Wise Use What Do We Believe? 1996RON ARNOLD | 279 |
Women and Ecology 1988 ANDREE COLLARD WITH JOYCE CONTRUCCI | 286 |
FURTHER READING | 291 |
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| Title | So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture American Visions (Wilmington, Del.), No. 5 5. number of American visions : readings in American culture 5. number of American visions 5. köide of G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture, Chris J. Magoc |
| Author | Chris J. Magoc |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0842026967, 9780842026963 |
| Length | 301 pages |
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