Great Debates in American Environmental History

Author Brian Black

Publisher Greenwood Publishing Group

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Author

Brian Black

Publisher

Greenwood Publishing Group

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Copyright

2008

ISBN13

9780313086021

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eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Examines the most important and controversial environmental issues in the history of the United States, from the Colonial period to the present. Describes the issues, the stakeholders of various positions, and both the immediate outcome of the debate, and the long-term consequences of the result.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
List of Entries.
Guide to Related Topics.
Preface.
Introduction: What Lay Below the Arctic Ice Cap.
1: Was the Loss of the Roanoke Colony Caused by Environmental Factors?.
2: Cash Crops and Near Disaster at Jamestown.
3: Explorers Search the Resources of the American West.
4: Can the City of Boston be Artificially Grown?.
5: “Broad Arrow” Policy Conserves New England Forests and Foments Revolution.
6: William Penn and Roger Williams Establish a Unique American Model.
7: Alexander Hamilton Envisions an Industrial America.
8: Navigating the Chesapeake Bay During the Early Republic.
9: Internal Improvements in the Early Republic.
10: What is the Importance of America's Natural History?.
11: Modeling Public Works in Philadelphia.
12: Instrumentalizing the Rivers of New England.
13: The Land Ordinance of 1785–1787 Constructs the American Grid for Land “Disposal”.
14: Native Resistance to European Settlement.
15: Indian Expropriation and the Trail of Tears.
16: Was a Whale Worth the Effort to Nantucketeers?.
17: Defining a Unique Southern Style of Agriculture.
18: Jefferson Argues for the Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion.
19: Lewis and Clark Seek to Know the Unknown Continent.
20: Romantics Claim that Nature's Value Derives from Beauty.
21: Bringing America's Nature Aesthetic to Life in Parks.
22: Constructing the Canal Age: Who Should Pay?.
23: American Leaders Create a Culture and System of Expansion.
24: The War of 1812 Steers Americans' Energy Future Toward Coal.
25: Working in a Coal Mine.
26: George Perkins Marsh Spurs Consideration of Industrialization.
27: Making a Future for Freed Slaves.
28: Hitching the Nation's Future to the Railroad.
29: Industrial Ethics and the Lessons of the Disaster in Johnstown.
30: Mormons Create a Model for Interpreting the Aridity of the West.
31: Sett
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