The American environment revisited : environmental historical geographies of the United States / edited by Geoffrey L. Buckley, Yolonda Youngs.

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This innovative book provides a dynamic--and often surprising--view of the range of environmental issues facing the United States today. A distinguished group of scholars examines the growing temporal, spatial, and thematic breadth of topics historical geographers are now exploring. Seventeen origin...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Buckley, Geoffrey L., 1965- (Editor)
Youngs, Yolonda (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
Subjects:
United States > Historical geography.
Environmental geography > United States.
United States > Environmental conditions.
Ecology.
Environmental geography.
Historical geography.
United States.
Physical Description:xxiv, 358 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Nature gone wild
  • Toward a historical geography of human-invasive species relations: How Kudzu came to belong In the American South / Derek H. Alderman
  • Unruly domestic environments: Do-it-yourself pesticides, gender, and regulation in Post-World War II homes / Dawn Biehler
  • From noble stag to suburban vermin: The return of deer to the Northeast United States / Bob Wilson
  • Parks and recreation
  • Wild, unpredictable, and dangerous: A historical geography of hazards and risks in U.S. National Parks / Yolonda Youngs
  • Migration and social justice in wilderness creation / Katie Algeo and Collins Eke
  • Racialized assemblages and state park design in the Jim Crow South / William E. O'Brien
  • Shredding mountain lines: GoPro, mobility, and the spatial politics of outdoor sports / Annie Gilbert Coleman
  • Living in the city
  • Frederick Law Olmsted's abandoned San Francisco Park plan / Terence Young
  • Inventing Phoenix: Land use, politics, and environmental justice / Abigail M. York and Christopher G. Boone
  • Fresh kills landfill: Landscape to wastescape to ecoscape / Martin V. Melosi
  • Transforming the environment
  • Progressive legacy: Fred Besley and the rise of professional forestry in Maryland / Geoffrey L. Buckley
  • Gold vs. grain: Oblique ecologies of hydraulic mining in California / Gareth Hoskins
  • Bridging the Florida Keys: Engineering an environmental transformation, 1904-1912 / K. Maria D. Lane
  • Florida's springs: Growth, tourism, and politics / Christopher F. Meindl
  • Eye on nature
  • Reconsidering the sublime: Images and imaginative geographies in American environmental history / Finis Dunaway
  • American environmental photography / Steven Hoelscher
  • Environments of the imagination / Dydia DeLyser.