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Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life
Brian Black
ISBN: 0-313-33201-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33201-2
264 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 4/30/2006
List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £34.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Black considers changing ideas about nature and the environment in nineteenth-century America, beginning with colonial times. He discusses the influence of agriculture, technology, trade areas, nature writing, mining, farming, the environment during the Civil War, factories and industrialization, and conservation efforts toward the end of the century.
    —SciTech Book News     6/1/2006
  • Students looking for well-documented fact bites for research papers will find the book useful....The book begins and ends with a fascinating narrative on the trashing and subsequent restoration of Niagara Falls in the 19th century. Recommended. Public and general libraries, and reference collections serving lower-level undergraduates.
    —Choice     2/1/2007
Description: The nineteenth-century saw a significant transformation in the United States. In one short century, the nation had seen the populating of the Great Plains and West, the decimation of native Indian tribes, the growth of national transportation and communication networks, and the rise of major cities. The century also witnessed the destruction of the nation's forests, battles over land and water, and the ascent of agribusiness. With these changes in resource use patterns and values came a concordant shift in attitudes toward nature. Conservation and preservation emerged as watchwords for the 1900s. The century that started with an attitude of environmental conquest thus ended by embracing conservation and a new environmental awareness.
 Title Features:
Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century America addresses a wide variety of the environmental issues that impacted the lives of people of all classes, races, and regions:
  • Western expansion and how the subsequent changes in the land impacted Native Americans and homesteaders
  • Urbanization and industrialization and the change in the lives of city dwellers
  • The disappearance of wildlife, such as the buffalo and the passenger pigeon
  • The advent of a new concern about the environment, from writers such as Thoreau to new grassroots environmental organizations such as the Sierra Club
Part of the Daily Life through History series, this title joins Nature and the Environment in Twentieth-Century America in a new branch of the series-titles specifically looking at how nature and the environment impacted daily life.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    Introduction: The Wonder of Nature
    Expanding Colonial Systems
    Variations on the Agricultural Ideal
    Technology Leads the Day
    Corridors of Trade
    Speaking for Nature
    Civil War
    The Ethic of Extraction
    Factories in the Field
    Cities and Worker Reform
    Prioritizing Nature
    Epilogue: The New Niagara and the Preservation Ethic
About the Author: Brian Black is associate professor in the departments of history and environmental studies at Penn State University, Altoona. He is the author of PETROLIA: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom.
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