So glorious a landscape : nature and the environment in American history and culture / by Chris J. Magoc.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:American visions (Wilmington, Del.) ; no. 5.
Main Author: Magoc, Chris J., 1960-
Language:English
Published: Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 2002.
Series:American visions (Wilmington, Del.) ; no. 5.
Subjects:
United States > Environmental conditions > History > Sources.
Human ecology > United States > History > Sources.
Landscape changes > United States > History > Sources.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:xvi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • Indian ecology, American conquest
  • Nature's nation: The American landscape and the nature writing tradition
  • Science, nature, and the emergence of an ecological ethic
  • Power and place: The meeting of social and environmental history
  • The environmental era: Responses to nature in distress
  • Suggestions for further reading.