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Losing Eden : An Environmental History of the American West.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Environment and Region in the American West SeriesPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (386 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781496236234
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Losing EdenDDC classification:
  • 978
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Nature of the West -- 1. Losing "Eden" -- 2. The West Transformed -- 3. Claiming and Taming the Land -- 4. The Great Barbecue -- 5. The Pivotal Decade -- 6. Conservation and Preservation -- 7. Roll On -- 8. Booming the West -- 9. Building Consensus -- 10. Environmental Backlash and the New West -- 11. The Last Frontier -- Epilogue -- Index.
Summary: Losing Eden traces the critical role the natural environment has played in the history and development of the American West by illustrating the many ways it both shapes and is shaped by the people who live there.
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Cover Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Nature of the West -- 1. Losing "Eden" -- 2. The West Transformed -- 3. Claiming and Taming the Land -- 4. The Great Barbecue -- 5. The Pivotal Decade -- 6. Conservation and Preservation -- 7. Roll On -- 8. Booming the West -- 9. Building Consensus -- 10. Environmental Backlash and the New West -- 11. The Last Frontier -- Epilogue -- Index.

Losing Eden traces the critical role the natural environment has played in the history and development of the American West by illustrating the many ways it both shapes and is shaped by the people who live there.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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