| Description |
x, 255 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Nature We Have Lost -- 2. Paths Across the Levee -- 3. History as Natural History -- 4. Transformations of the Earth -- 5. Arranging a Marriage: Ecology and Agriculture -- 6. A Sense of Soil -- 7. Good Farming and the Public Good -- 8. Private, Public, Personal: Americans and the Land -- 9. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Water -- 10. Thinking Like a River -- 11. An End to Ecstasy -- 12. The Shaky Ground of Sustainable Development -- 13. The Ecology of Order and Chaos -- 14. Restoring a Natural Order -- 15. John Muir and the Roots of American Environmentalism -- 16. The Wealth of Nature |
| Notes |
Book of essays which previously appeared in various journals or books or given as lectures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-243) and index |
| Subject |
Human ecology -- United States -- History.
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Landscape assessment -- United States -- History.
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| LC no. |
92015360 |
| ISBN |
0195076249 |
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