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The Grasslands of the United States: An Environmental History: Nature and Human Societies

Autor James E. Sherow Editat de Mark R. Stoll
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 apr 2007 – vârsta până la 17 ani
This unique survey of the environmental history of the grasslands in the United States explores the ecological, social, and economic networks enmeshing humans in this biome over the last 10,000 years."Treeless, level, and semi-arid." Walter Prescott Webb's famous description of the Great Plains is really only part of their story. From their creation at the end of the Ice Age to the ongoing problems of depopulation, soil erosion, polluted streams, and depleted groundwater aquifers, human interaction with the prairies has often been controversial.Part of ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies series, The Grasslands of the United States: An Environmental History explores the historical and ecological dimensions of human interaction with North America's grasslands. Examining issues as diverse as whether the arrival of the Paleo-Indians led to the extinction of the mammoth and the consequences of industrialization and genetically modified crops, this invaluable reference synthesizes literature from a wide range of authoritative sources to provide a fascinating guide to the environment of this biome.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781851097203
ISBN-10: 1851097201
Pagini: 408
Ilustrații: 42 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.98 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția ABC-CLIO
Seria Nature and Human Societies

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

44 pages of original documents such as the Homestead Act (1862) and the Taylor Grazing Act (1934), Yellow Wolf's concerns with the disappearance of bison (1847), testimony of Kiowas as they sought to protect their reservation, to excerpts from Ron Arnold, one of the main advocates of the Wise Use Movement

Notă biografică

James E. Sherow is professor of history at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. His published works include Watering the Valley and A Sense of the American West: An Anthology of Environmental History. He is the recipient of the Phi Alpha Theta/Westerners International Prize for the best dissertation on the history of the American West.

Recenzii

The book should be a useful addition to environmental collections in most public and acadmic libraries.