American Environmental History

1 About this book

"This compilation of seminal essays introduces students to the most exciting scholarship and writing on the environmental history in the United States. With primary documents that illustrate the conditions, perception, and influences of environmental issues from the pre-Columbian era to the present, the book invites students to analyze not only the connections between people and nature, but popular ideas of the environment in American history.

Subjects include the changing American landscape, virgin soil epidemics and biological invasions, the impact of colonialism and industrial development, conservation, and the environmental movement and the backlash against it."

Good for readers who want: history and nature.

• Environmental conditions
• History
• Human ecology
• Nature
• Nature, effect of human beings on
• United states, environmental conditions
• Effect of human beings on