This visually dynamic historical atlas chronologically covers American environmental history through the use of four-color maps, photos, and diagrams, and in written entries from well known scholars.
Organized into seven categories, each chapter covers: agriculture * wildlife and forestry * land use and management * technology and industry * pollution and human heath * human habitats * and ideology and politics.
With valuable reference aids--including bibliographies, sources for further research, an extensive index, and newly designed maps--this is an indispensable tool for students and educators alike.
For a detailed contents, a generous selection of sample articles, and more, visit the website Atlas of US and Canadian Environmental History website.
Also includes 46 color maps.
Author(s): Char Miller (editor)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 256
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The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History
Copyright
Table of Contents
Preface
CHAPTER ONE European Exploration and the Colonial Era (1492–1770s)
Columbian Exchange
Domestication of the Land: From Wilderness to Farmland
Early American and Canadian Forests
European Exploitation and Mapping the Land
Commodification of Nature: Export of Resources to the Old World
Pre-Contact: Indigenous Populations in the United States and Canada
Spanish in Florida and the Southwest
New England Agrarian Commonwealths
Chesapeake Bay Region: Early Tobacco South
The Seigneurial System in New France
Relationship to the Land: Indigenous and European Views
CHAPTER TWO Expansion and Conflict (1770s–1850s)
Farming in Southern Ontario
Plantation Economy and Labor in the U.S. South
The Fur Trade
Great Lakes Timber
Extermination of the Buffalo
Public Land Policies: The U.S. Experience
Crown Land Policies: The Canadian Experience
The Age of Wood
The Transportation Revolution
Native Americans: Reservations and Relocations in the United States
Canada's First Nations
The Return to Nature: Transcendentalism and Utopian Communities
Manifest Destiny and the Politics of U.S. Western Expansion
CHAPTER THREE Landscape of Industrialization (1850s–1920s)
Agricultural Innovations and Technology
The Frontier: Cattle Ranching
Harvesting the Pacific Northwest Forests
Rebirth of American Forests
Exploitation of Raw Materials for Industry
Gold and Silver Mining in the West
The Impact of the Civil War
Transcontinental Railroads
Iron and Steel Production
Water Supply and Wastewrater Disposal in the United States
Water Supply and Pollution in Canada
Urbanization: Population Shifts and Migration Patterns
The Built Environment in the City
Social Darwinism and "Survival of the Fittest" in the United States
City Beautiful Movement
Romanticism of Nature: American and Canadian Writers and Artists
CHAPTER FOUR The Conservation Era (1880s–1920s)
Irrigation and Farming in the United States and Canada
Forest Management: United States Forest Service
Forest Management in Canada
The Beginning of Wildlife Preservation in Canada
Urban Parks and Landscape Architecture in the United States and Canada
Winters v. U.S. and the Development of the Doctrine of Reserved Water Rights
Appalachian Coal Mining
Petroleum and the Early Oil Industry
Urban Smoke Pollution in the United States
The Canadian Commission of Conservation: Urban Planning
The U.S. Conservation Movement
The Conservation Movement in Canada
The Origin of the Preservation Movement in the United States
The Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909: An Expression of Progressivism
CHAPTER FIVE From the Depression to Atomic Power (1930s–1960s)
The Dust Bovvl in the Great Plains
Chemicalization of Agriculture in the United States
Game Management
Sustainable Forestry in British Columbia and Ontario
Western Dams in the United States
The Atom Bomb and Nuclear Power
Consumer Goods: Plastics and Packaging
The Evolution of Suburbia and the Federal Aid Highway Act
The Rise of the Sunbelt
U.S. Wilderness Recreation
Rachel Carson and Silent Spring
CHAPTER SIX The Rise of the Environmental Movement (1960s–1980s)
Population Growth and Consumption
Wilderness Act of 1964
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Dispute
Canadian Dams and River Restorations
Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Cleanup
Contemporary Native American Land and Resource Rights in the United States
The Energy Crisis and Nuclear Power
Environmental Disasters
Collapse of Inner Cities and Industrial Centers
The Emergence of the U.S. Environmental Movement
Pollution Probe: The Emergence of the Canadian Environmental Movement
Environmental Diplomacy: The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Anti-Environmentalism: The Sagebrush Rebellion
CHAPTER SEVEN Contemporary Environmentalism (1980s–Present)
Alternative Agricultural Methods
Sustainable Forestry in the United States
Protecting Endangered Species and Habitats
Canadian Fisheries: Loss of the Cod
River Restoration in the United States
Mississippi River Watershed
Public Lands: The United States
Public Lands: Canada
Industries and Regulatory Strategies
Drinking Water
Environmental Justice
Eco-Radicalism
Environmental Diplomacy: Canada, the United States, and Acid Rain
NAFTA and Environmental Side Agreements
Corporate "Greenwashing"
Timeline
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
