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Nature's nation : an environmental history of the United States / John Opie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1998.Description: xxii, 517 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0155002198
  • 9780155002197
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GE150 .O65 1998
Contents:
"O strange new wolrd!" -- World we have lost : people of the land -- Federal geography -- When the United States was an undeveloped country -- Unifying American space -- Romantic America and utopianism : laying claim to paradise -- Determining America's environmental future : the rush to industrialize -- Reshaping the nation : the built environment and public works -- Environmental costs of industrial America : cities and landscapes in trouble -- From nature's water to public works water : America becomes a hydraulic civilization -- Hitting on the wall : environmental limits in Appalachia and on the High Plains.
Recovering "original America" : the wilderness movement -- Environmentalism enters the American mainstream : environmetnal science, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, and public awareness -- Risk and regulation : environmentalism enters the modern era -- Into the twenty-first century : the United States and the global environment.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"O strange new wolrd!" -- World we have lost : people of the land -- Federal geography -- When the United States was an undeveloped country -- Unifying American space -- Romantic America and utopianism : laying claim to paradise -- Determining America's environmental future : the rush to industrialize -- Reshaping the nation : the built environment and public works -- Environmental costs of industrial America : cities and landscapes in trouble -- From nature's water to public works water : America becomes a hydraulic civilization -- Hitting on the wall : environmental limits in Appalachia and on the High Plains.

Recovering "original America" : the wilderness movement -- Environmentalism enters the American mainstream : environmetnal science, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, and public awareness -- Risk and regulation : environmentalism enters the modern era -- Into the twenty-first century : the United States and the global environment.