Record details

• ISBN: 0871137895
• ISBN: 9780871137890
• Physical Description: 404 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
• Edition: 1st American ed.
• Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2001.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published by Text Publishing, Melbourne Australia in 2001.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-395) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Map -- Introduction -- Act 1 : In which America is created and undone -- Ground zero ; Reordering of North America ; Hellbenders and hoofed creatures -- Act 2 : In which America becomes a tropical paradise -- First contacts ; Bridge over Greenland -- Act 3 : In which America becomes a land of immigrants -- Fatal configuration ; Grande Coupure ; Golden age ; Gateway to the present ; United lands of America ; Laurentide ; Visit to a new world -- Act 4 : In which America is discovered -- New world ; Black hole theory of extinction ; Massacring the mammoth, dismembering the mastodon ; New American fauna ; Making of the buffalo ; Rise of cultures ; Taming of teosinte -- Act 5 : In which America conquers the world : Alternative Americas -- English colonies all ; Conceived in liberty ; Fatal impact ; America under the gun ; Making of a giant ; What's home on the range? ; Reinventing America.

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Subject:

Natural history > North America.
Ecology > North America.
Sciences naturelles > Amérique du Nord.
Écologie > Amérique du Nord.
Natuurlijke historie.
Ecologie.