Product Description: North America’s pristine, remote, and very much endangered lands as seen through the award-winning aerial photography of Jim Wark. The expanse of North America seems boundless, and its wild lands encompass some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world...read more

From These Beginnings looks at history through engaging biographical portraits of well-known men and women whose contributions helped to create the nation and society.   Each biography offers a uniquely personal and provocative glimpse into the lives of these Americans and shows how their experiences are linked to historical events, covering everything from the environment to popular culture. From These Beginnings can be used as a stand-alone core text, or as a wonderful supplement to any U.S. History survey course, inviting students to see history not as a collection of names and dates, but as an evolving tale about people like themselves.

 

Traces America's changing attitudes toward natural resources, from the pioneer's fear of the primeval forest to the present furor over conservation

Product Description: Book by Nash, Roderick

Product Description: A major reinterpretation of American thought from 1917 to 1930, with a lively foray into the popular culture of the supposedly roaring twenties.

Traces the development of the concept that nature has rights, and examines the work of environmental activists

Selections from contemporary writings reveal the uncertainties of the industrialized nation during the Progressive era