A Sense of the American West: An Environmental History Anthology (Historians of the Frontier and American West) - Hardcover

Sherow, James E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826319130 ISBN 13: 9780826319135

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 1998

Synopsis

This anthology collects fourteen essays on the environmental history of the American West, exploring diverse approaches to environmental history, the western environment before Anglo-American settlement, the radical environmental transformations of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the rise of the environmental movement after World War II. The contributions analyze variables of place, process, race, class, gender, and culture. This anthology is ideal for courses on environmental and western history.

In addition to the volume editor, contributors include Dan Flores, Robert MacCameron, Gregory McPherson and Renee A. Haip, Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted, Thomas R. Dunlap, Richard West Sellars, Mark Harvey, Daniel Pope, F. Lee Brown and Helen M. Ingram, Mary Pardo, and John Opie.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Historians of the Frontier and American West series

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An anthology of diverse approaches and issues in the environmental history of the American West.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0826319130
• ISBN 13: 9780826319135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300