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Down to Earth - Nature's Role in American History (Paperback, 4th edition)
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Down to Earth - Nature's Role in American History (Paperback, 4th edition)
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In this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted
Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history
that places the environment at the very center of the narrative.
Now in a new edition, Down to Earth reenvisions the story of
America "from the ground up." It reveals how focusing on plants,
animals, climate, and other ecological factors can radically change
the way that we think about the past. Examining such familiar
topics as colonization, the industrial revolution, slavery, the
Civil War, and the emergence of consumer culture, Steinberg
recounts how the natural world influenced the course of human
history. From the colonists' attempts to impose order on the land
to modern efforts to sell the wilderness as a consumer good, he
reminds readers that many critical episodes in U.S. history were,
in fact, environmental events. The text highlights the ways in
which Americans have attempted to reshape and control nature, from
Thomas Jefferson's surveying plan, which divided the national
landscape into a grid, to the transformation of animals, crops, and
even water into commodities.
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