Addresses how 19th-century Americans interacted with nature and the environment.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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