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This anthology focuses on James J. Parsons' work in Latin America
and in Spain, with the resulting neglect of his publications on
other regions, particularly California. It includes the integration
of economy and ecology. .
This anthology focuses on James J. Parsons' work in Latin America
and in Spain, with the resulting neglect of his publications on
other regions, particularly California. It includes the integration
of economy and ecology. .
"To Pass On a Good Earth" is the candid and compelling new
biography of one of the twentieth century's most distinctive and
influential scholars. The legendary "Great God beyond the Sierras,"
Carl Ortwin Sauer is America's most famed geographer, an
inspiration to both academics and poets, yet no book-length
biography of him has existed until now.
This Missouri-born son of German immigrants contributed to many
fields, with a versatility rare in his time and virtually unknown
today. Sauer explored plant and animal domestication, the entry of
Native Americans into the continent, their transformation of the
land into prairies and cultivated fields, and subsequent European
enterprise that fueled prosperity but also triggered environmental
degradation and the loss of cultural diversity. Providing profound
and invaluable insights into the human occupance, cultivation--and
often ruination--of the earth, Sauer revolutionized our
understanding of the impact of European conquest of the New
World.
Author and fellow geographer Michael Williams had access to
Sauer's voluminous correspondence in the Bancroft Library at
Berkeley and in family collections. Enlivened by these intimate
letters to family and colleagues, "To Pass On a Good Earth" reveals
the rare qualities of mind and heart that made Sauer one of
America's most treasured--as well as troubled--intellectual
pioneers. He brought both historical rigor and humanistic
understanding to the burgeoning environmental movement and
ceaselessly championed an ecumenical approach in an age of
increasing specialization.
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