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Title Down to earth : nature's role in American history / Ted Steinberg.
Author Steinberg, Theodore, 1961-
Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Edition 3rd ed.

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 Purdy-Kresge Library  GF 27 .S85 2013    CHECKED IN
Description xii, 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-353) and index.
Contents Prologue : rocks and history -- pt. 1. Chaos to simplicity. Wilderness under fire -- A truly new world -- Reflections from a woodlot -- pt. 2. Rationalization and its discontents. A world of commodities -- King climate in Dixie -- The great food fight -- Extracting the New South -- The unforgiving West -- Conservation reconsidered -- Death of the organic city -- pt. 3. Consuming nature. Moveable feast -- The secret history of meat -- America in black and green -- Throwaway society -- Shades of green -- In corporations we trust.
Subject Human ecology -- United States -- History.
Philosophy of nature -- United States -- History.
Human beings -- United States -- Effect of environment of -- History.
United States -- Environmental conditions.
ISBN 9780199797394
0199797390
OCLC # 795354477
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