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Tables of Contents for The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
xiii
Part I. Historical Overview: Topics and Themes
1
190
The American Environment and Native-European Encounters, 1000-1875
3
21
The Physical Environment and Natural Resources
3
1
Native Americans and the Land
4
2
Pueblo Indians and the Southwest
6
3
The Pueblo Indians and Spanish Settlement of the Southwest
9
2
Micmac Indians and French Settlement in the Northeast
11
3
Plains Indians and the Westward Movement
14
4
The European Transformation of the Plains
18
2
The Ecological Indian
20
1
Conclusion
21
3
The New England Wilderness Transformed, 1600-1850
24
15
The New England Forest and Indian Land Use
24
1
The Settlement of New England
25
2
Colonial Land Use
27
1
Marketing the Forest
28
3
The Forest Economy
31
2
Mind, Labor, and Nature
33
1
The Idea of Wilderness
34
2
Conclusion
36
3
The Tobacco and Cotton South, 1600-1900
39
20
The Chesapeake Environment and Indian-European Relations
39
2
Tobacco Cultivation
41
2
Slavery and Southern Agriculture
43
4
Soil Exhaustion in the Tobacco South
47
2
The Cotton South
49
2
Environment and Society in the Cotton South
51
1
Cotton Production
52
2
Post-Civil War Sharecropping
54
1
The Impact of the Boll Weevil
55
2
Conclusion
57
2
Nature and the Market Economy, 1750-1850
59
21
The Inland Economy and the Environment
59
2
Land Use in the Inland Economy
61
1
The Inland Economy and the Worldview of Its People
62
2
Market Farming
64
1
The Transportation and Market Revolutions
65
4
Nature and Ambivalence about the Market Economy
69
3
The Hudson River School of Painters
72
4
Artists and the Vanishing Indian
76
1
Conclusion
77
3
Western Frontiers: The Settlement of California and the Great Plains, 1820-1930
80
20
Westward Expansion and the Settlement of California
80
1
California Native Peoples and the Advent of Europeans
81
1
The Multicultural Character of the Gold Rush
82
3
Types of Gold Mining
85
1
Environmental Effects of Hydraulic Mining
86
2
Environmental Change in the Sierras
88
1
European Settlement of the Great Plains
89
2
The Rancher's Frontier
91
2
The Farmer's Frontier
93
1
Narratives of Blacks and Women
94
2
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s
96
2
Conclusion
98
2
Urban Environments, 1850-1960
100
20
Urbanization, Industry, and Energy
100
3
Industrial Cities and Labor
103
2
The City as Wilderness
105
2
Air Pollution
107
2
Garbage
109
2
Noise Pollution
111
1
Water Pollution
112
1
The Sanitary City
113
2
From City to Suburb
115
1
Minorities and Pollution
116
2
Conclusion
118
2
Conservation and Preservation, 1785-1950
120
20
Colonial Land Policy
120
2
Federal Land Policy
122
2
Land Law in the Arid West
124
2
Lands for Railroads and Education
126
1
The Conservation Movement
127
2
Reclamation and Water Law
129
3
The Preservation Movement
132
2
Creation of the National Parks
134
4
Conclusion
138
2
Indian Land Policy, 1800-1990
140
19
Indian Land Treaties
140
1
Indian Removal
141
3
The Dawes Act
144
1
Indians and the Creation of the National Parks
145
6
The Winters Decision
151
1
The Indian New Deal and Civil Rights
152
3
Indian Lands and Environmental Regulation
155
2
Conclusion
157
2
The Rise of Ecology, 1890-1990
159
15
Ernst Haeckel and the Origins of Ecology
159
3
Human Ecology
162
1
The Organismic Approach to Ecology
163
4
The Economic Approach to Ecology
167
4
The Influence of Chaos Theory
171
1
Conclusion
172
2
The Era of Environmentalism, 1940-2000
174
1
From Conservation to Environmentalism
174
1
New Deal Conservation
175
3
Population and the Environment
178
1
Environmental Regulation
179
3
Reactions to Environmental Regulation
182
2
Environmental Organizations
184
1
The Antitoxics Movement
185
3
The Transformation of Consciousness
188
2
Conclusion
190
1
Part II. American Environmental History A to Z: Agencies, Concepts, Laws, and People
191
58
Part III. Chronology: An Environmental History Timeline
249
20
Part IV. Resource Guide
269
2
Visual Resources
271
20
Electronic Resources
291
20
General Environmental History Resources
291
2
Environmental History Societies and Related Associations
293
1
Archival Materials
293
1
Bibliographies
294
1
Biographical Resources
295
1
Environmental Organizations and Information Centers
296
1
Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
297
1
Government Agencies
298
1
Natural History
299
1
Natural Resources
299
1
Regional Resources
300
1
Environmental justice Resources
301
1
Teaching Resources
302
1
Course Syllabi in American Environmental History
303
1
General Environmental Education
304
1
Historical Overview Web Sites
305
6
Bibliographical Essay
311
12
Bibliography
323
100
What Is Environmental History?
323
2
Anthologies and Bibliographies
325
2
Biographies and Autobiographical Writings
327
5
African Americans and the Environment
332
3
American Indian Land Use
335
6
American Indian Religion
341
5
Asian Americans and the Environment
346
2
Environmental Philosophy and Landscape Perception
348
4
The Environmental Movement
352
3
The History of Ecology
355
1
The History of Environmental Science
356
2
Conservation History and Legislation
358
6
Agricultural History
364
7
Forest History
371
15
Mining History
386
4
Pollution
390
2
Range History
392
3
Water and Irrigation History
395
9
Wilderness Preservation
404
6
Wildlife
410
7
The Urban Environment
417
6
Index
423