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So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture (American Visions (Wilmington, Del.), No. 5.)
So Glorious a Landscape Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture No 5 - American Visions Wilmington, Del. Author:Chris J. Magoc So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture surveys the vast subject of American natural and environmental studies. It examines the literary landscape that has inspired a local, regional, and national sense of place; explores the dynamic meaning and significance of nature across time, place, culture, and... more » gender; and looks at the essence and history of environmental change. The first all-encompassing survey of environmental history and cultural studies, this volume provides readers with carefully chosen selections from major essayists, naturalists, preachers, geographers, novelists, scientists, and historians whose works have shaped the fields of literary ecology and environmental history. The essays trace the changing American landscape and ideas about nature from the seventeenth century to the present. By analyzing a range of material, So Glorious a Landscape provides a fresh perspective on what nature is in American life, what forces have shaped its profound place and changing definition, and what the work of environmental historians tells about the relationship of nature, culture, and power in America. Sample Selections: Where I Lived and What I Lived For, Henry David Thoreau My First Summer in the Sierra, John Muir The Destructiveness of Man, George Perkins Marsh Alice Hamilton Explores the Dangerous Trades, Robert Gottlieb The Problem at Love Canal and The Motel People, Lois Gibbs From NIMBY to Civil Rights: The Origins of the Environmental Justice Movement, Eileen Maura McGurty Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks, Edward Abbey The National Environmental Policy Act« less