The environment in American history: nature and the formation of the United States

1. Faith in a generous land -- 2. Pathogens and plows in the land of plenty -- 3. A great fur and hide marketplace -- 4. A great farming nation -- 5. "A newer garden of creation" -- 6. Naturally horrifying : environment in the Civil War -- 7. Western lands of wealth and violence -- 8. Conserving resources, saving sacred spaces, and cleaning the cities : America in the conservation era -- 9. Restoring and transforming the land in the 1920s and 1930s -- 10. Abundance and terror : Americans in World War II -- 11. Environmental consensus in the republic of abundance -- 12. Environmental reform and schism -- 13. A time of environmental contradictions -- Epilogue: the greatest peril of abundance.

From pre-European contact to the present day, people living in what is now the United States have constantly manipulated their environment. The use of natural resources - animals, plants, minerals, water, and land - has produced both prosperity and destruction, reshaping the land and human responses to it. The Environment in American History is a clear and comprehensive account that vividly shows students how the environment played a defining role in the development of American society.Organized in thirteen chronological chapters, and extensively illustrated, the book covers themes including:N