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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: wealth of nature
    sub title: environmental history and the ecological imagination
  name:
    name part: Worster, Donald
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History
  genre: History (form)
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 1993
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 255 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "Hailed as "one of the most eminent environmental historians of the West" by Alan Brinkley in The New York Times Book Review, Donald Worster has been a leader in reshaping the study of American history. Winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his book Dust Bowl, Worster has helped bring humanity's interaction with nature to the forefront of historical thinking. Now, in The Wealth of Nature, he offers a series of thoughtful, eloquent essays which lay out his views on environmental history, tying the study of the past to today's agenda for change." "The Wealth of Nature captures the fruit of what Worster calls "my own intellectual turning to the land." History, he writes, represents a dialogue between humanity and nature - though it is usually reported as if it were simple dictation. Worster takes as his point of departure the approach expressed early on by Aldo Leopold, who stressed the importance of nature in determining human history, Leopold pointed out that the spread of bluegrass in Kentucky, for instance, created new pastures and fed the rush of American settlers across the Appalachians, which affected the contest between Britain, France, and the U.S. for control of the area. Worster's own work offers an even more subtly textured understanding, noting in this example, for instance, that bluegrass itself was an import from the Old World which supplanted native vegetation - a form of "environmental imperialism." He ranges across such areas as agriculture, water development, and other questions, examining them as environmental issues, showing how they have affected - and continue to affect - human settlement. Environmental history, he argues, is not simply the history of rural and wilderness areas; cities clearly have a tremendous impact on the land, on which they depend for their existence. He argues for a comprehensive approach to understanding our past as well as our present in environmental terms."
  abstract: ""Nostalgia runs all through this society," Worster writes, "fortunately, for it may be our only hope of salvation." These reflective and engaging essays capture the fascination of environmental history - and the beauty of nature lost or endangered - underscoring the importance of intelligent action in the present."--Jacket.
  table of contents: The nature we have lost -- Paths across the levee -- History as natural history -- Transformation of the earth -- Arranging a marriage: ecology and agriculture -- A sense of soil -- Good farming and the public good -- Private, public, personal: Americans and the land -- The kingdom, the power, and the water -- Thinking like a river -- An end to ecstasy -- The shaky ground of sustainable development -- The ecology of order and chaos -- Restoring a natural order -- John Muir and the roots of American environmentalism -- The wealth of nature.
  note: Donald Worster.
  note: Book of essays which previously appeared in various journals or books or given as lectures.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-243) and index.
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  subject:
    topic: Human ecology
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Landscape assessment
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Human ecology
  subject:
    topic: Landscapes
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Paysages
    topic: Évaluation
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: 42.90 ecology: general
  subject:
    topic: Human ecology
  subject:
    topic: Landscape assessment
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Ecologie
  subject:
    topic: Human ecology
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Landscape assessment
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Environmentalism
  subject:
    topic: Environment
    topic: Effects of
    topic: Humans
  subject:
    topic: sociale ecologie
  subject:
    topic: human ecology
  subject:
    topic: mens
  subject:
    topic: man
  subject:
    topic: milieu
  subject:
    topic: landschap
  subject:
    topic: landscape
  subject:
    topic: taxatie
  subject:
    topic: valuation
  subject:
    topic: ideologie
  subject:
    topic: ideology
  subject:
    topic: landschapsecologie
  subject:
    topic: landscape ecology
  subject:
    topic: geschiedenis
  subject:
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: vs
  subject:
    topic: usa
  subject:
    topic: Landscape and Environmental History
  subject:
    topic: Landschaps- en milieugeschiedenis
  classification: GF503 .W68 1993
  classification: 304.2/8/0973
  classification: 504(73)(091)
  classification: 339.5
  classification: 15.85
  classification: 42.90
  classification: 7,26
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      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993
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    record creation date: 920409
    record change date: 20240327141748.0
    record identifier: in00001113317
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng