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Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History Ted Steinberg on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. In this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States-a history that places the environment at the very center of the narrative. Now in a new edition. Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History. By addressing the ways in which nature functions in the world of big business, as well as the efforts by environmentalists to combat corporate power, Steinberg provides a richer understanding of consumerism. Down to Earth is ideal for courses in environmental history, environmental studies.
A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and political development. Ranging from the colonists' attempts to impose orderon the land to the modern efforts to sell the wilderness as a consumer good, packaged in national parks and Alaskan cruises, Steinberg reminds readers that many critical episodes in our history were, in fact, environmental events: the California Gold Rush, for example, or the great migration ofAfrican Americans to the North in the early twentieth century (in part the consequence of an insect infestation)...
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Down To Earth Ted Steinberg Pdf
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2002
- Series:
- AMS Studies in Music