Book
American environmentalism : readings in conservation history
Record details
- ISBN: 0070460590
- ISBN: 9780070460591
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Physical Description:
print
xix, 364 pages ; 22 cm - Edition: 3rd ed.
- Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1990.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Revised edition of: The American environment. 2d ed. c1976. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part I: The Conservation Impulse, Beginnings-1878. Native Americans Define the Natural Community / Black Elk -- The Human Factor in Environmental Change / William Cronon -- Frontiersmen and the American Environment / Wilbur Jacobs -- An Artist Proposes a National Park / George Catlin -- The Value of Wildness / Henry David Thoreau -- Human Responsibility for the Land / George Perkins Marsh -- The Value and Care of Parks / Frederick Law Olmsted -- The Sportsman Factor in Early Conservation / John F. Reiger -- The Beginnings of Federal Concern / Carl Schurz -- The Reclamation Idea / John Wesley Powell. |
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| Genre: | History. Sources. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | S 930 .A56 1990 | 679565 | Stacks | Available | - |