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The atlas of U.S. and Canadian environmental history / Char Miller, editor.
- Title
- The atlas of U.S. and Canadian environmental history / Char Miller, editor.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, c2003.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Miller, Char, 1951-
- Description
- viii, 248 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.); 29 cm.
- Summary
- This visually dynamic resource chronologically covers its subject through the use of four-color maps, photos and diagrams, with substantial articles written by well known scholars. Each chapter provides entries on seven essential areas: - 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.
- Alternative Title
- Atlas of US and Canadian environmental history
- Atlas of United States and Canadian environmental history
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Atlases
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-231) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- European exploration and the Colonial Era (1492-1770s) -- Expansion and conflict (1770s-1850s) -- Landscape of industrialization (1850s-1920s) -- The Conservation Era (1880s-1920s) -- From the Depression to atomic power (1930s-1960s) -- The rise of the environmental movement (1960s-1980s) -- Contemporary environmentalism (1980s-present).
- ISBN
- 0415937817
- LCCN
- ^^2003046799
- OCLC
- 52216180
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library