02266cam a2200325 4500 562547215 TxAuBib 20220424120000.0 ||||||s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780198032106 0198032102 B00APZQ6KI Amazon c08b5ea6-0a84-4b8d-aa77-546ed7c42e8c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 124290 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Steinberg, Ted. Down to Earth [Libby eBook] : Nature's Role in American History. Oxford University Press, 2002. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 9MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Environmental History. HTML:<p>A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and political development. Ranging from the colonists' attempts to impose orderon the land to the modern efforts to sell the wilderness as a consumer good, packaged in national parks and Alaskan cruises, Steinberg reminds readers that many critical episodes in our history were, in fact, environmental events: the California Gold Rush, for example, or the great migration ofAfrican Americans to the North in the early twentieth century (in part the consequence of an insect infestation)...</p>. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-23 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c08b5ea6-0a84-4b8d-aa77-546ed7c42e8c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c08b5ea6-0a84-4b8d-aa77-546ed7c42e8c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c08b5ea6-0a84-4b8d-aa77-546ed7c42e8c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)