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'''California History''' | '''California History''' | ||
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[http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0809095351/ref=sib_dp_ptu#reader-link ''Mining California: An Ecological History''] | [http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0809095351/ref=sib_dp_ptu#reader-link ''Mining California: An Ecological History''] | ||
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[http://www.eoearth.org/article/Paleoindians_and_the_great_pleistocene_die-off Another account of megafauna extinctions] | [http://www.eoearth.org/article/Paleoindians_and_the_great_pleistocene_die-off Another account of megafauna extinctions] | ||
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== Histories of Environmental Movement == | == Histories of Environmental Movement == | ||
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''Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement'' (1993) | ''Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement'' (1993) | ||
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Philip Shabecoff, ''A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement'', Island Press; Revised Edition, 2003 | Philip Shabecoff, ''A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement'', Island Press; Revised Edition, 2003 | ||
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| + | ''Nature and the environment in twentieth-century American life'' / Brian Black | ||
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| + | McH Stacks - GF503 .B54 2006 [http://libportal.ucsc.edu/iii/encore/record/C|Rb2483345|Senvironment%2Band%2Bthe%2Bpress|Ff:facetcloud:human%20ecology:human%20ecology:human%2Becology::|P0,14|Orightresult?lang=eng&suite=def Link] | ||
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| + | Nature and the environment in nineteenth-century American life / Brian Black | ||
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[http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/ca-hist.html California Environmental History bibliography] | [http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/departments/espm/env-hist/ca-hist.html California Environmental History bibliography] | ||
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One of the early debates about the environment was between Preservationists such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir John Muir] and Conservationists such as [http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ppet/pinchot/page1.asp?secid=31 Gifford Pinchot] is explored in the video The Wilderness Idea, which can be found at McHenry Library (ask for VT2197) [http://etext.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv1-59 Discussion of the evolution of the term "conservation"] | One of the early debates about the environment was between Preservationists such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir John Muir] and Conservationists such as [http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/ppet/pinchot/page1.asp?secid=31 Gifford Pinchot] is explored in the video The Wilderness Idea, which can be found at McHenry Library (ask for VT2197) [http://etext.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv1-59 Discussion of the evolution of the term "conservation"] | ||
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Revision as of 00:17, 10 January 2009
Understanding the past to know the way forward.
World History
Collapse by Jared Diamond, (celebrated author of Guns, Germs and Steel) seeks to understand why so many civilizations have been unable to avoid destroying the environment they depended upon. In this selection he summaries the reasons, which may also be involved in your issue. TEDtalk video
Global Environmental History / I.G. Simmons Simmons, I. G. (Ian Gordon), 1937- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 McH Stacks - GF13 .S56 2008 Link
Natures Past : the environment and human history / Paolo Squatriti, editor Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007 McH Stacks - GF13 .N38 2007 Link
Environment and Empire (UK) / William Beinart and Lotte Hughes Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 McH Stacks - GF551 .B45 2007
California History
California Environmental History bibliography
Mining California: An Ecological History by Andrew C. Isenberg (see course reader)
The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area by Richard Walker
A history of California counties.
Californiahistory.com is absolutely devoted to the history of California. General and more difficult to search for details about one place.
Links to popular California history sites (e.g., railroads, museums)
History of the county of Los Angeles (not just the city--the entire county)
History and nostalgia, for historic minded.
Native Americans (see also Native American page)
Charles Mann, author of 1491(book exploration on how Native Americans used the land) has also written about interactions between colonists and Native peoples.
Another account of megafauna extinctions
Nature and the environment in pre-Columbian American life
Kowtko, Stacy
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006
McH Stacks - E98.S67 K69 2006
Histories of Environmental Movement
Robert Gottlieb, Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement (1993) Review of Gottlieb book that tells alternative history of the environmental movement.
American Environmentalism: The U.S. Environmental Movement, 1970-1990 / edited by Riley E. Dunlap and Angela G. Mertig. Published Philadelphia : Taylor & Francis, c1992 (provides a succinct conventional overview of U.S. environmental movement in introductory chapter)
Philip Shabecoff, A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement, Island Press; Revised Edition, 2003
Nature and the environment in twentieth-century American life / Brian Black Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006 McH Stacks - GF503 .B54 2006 Link
Nature and the environment in nineteenth-century American life / Brian Black Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006 McH Stacks - GF503 .B53 2006
California Environmental History bibliography
US Environmental History bibliography
One of the early debates about the environment was between Preservationists such as John Muir and Conservationists such as Gifford Pinchot is explored in the video The Wilderness Idea, which can be found at McHenry Library (ask for VT2197) Discussion of the evolution of the term "conservation"
Articles in category "History"
The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
