An Unsettled Country: Changing Landscapes of the American West (Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture Series) - Softcover

Worster, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826314821 ISBN 13: 9780826314826

Verlag: UNM Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

In these four essays, which were presented as the 1992 Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture, Donald Worster incisively discusses the role of the natural environment in the making of the West--and often in its unmaking and remaking.

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Donald Worster

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The West remains unsettled, both by cultural habits, intellectual debate, and ecological conditions. In these four essays, comprising the Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western history and Culture, Donald Worster incisively discusses just how the natural environment has played an active, critical role in the making of the West-and often in its unmaking and remaking. His subjects are four linked topics: the legacy of John Wesley Powell to western resource management; the domination of water policy by state, science, and capital since the mid-nineteenth century; the fate of wildlife in the push to settle the West; and the threat of global warming to the Great Plains.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNM Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0826314821
• ISBN 13: 9780826314826
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 163
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