TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fiege,Mark
AU  - Cronon,William
TI  - The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States
T2  - Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks
SN  - 9780295804149
AV  - WEB 
U1  - 304.20973 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Human ecology - United States - History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Environmental History Comes of Age by William Cronon -- Land of Lincoln -- 1. Satan in the Land: Nature, the Supernatural, and Disorder in Colonial New England -- 2. By the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God: Declaring American Independence -- 3. King Cotton: The Cotton Plant and Southern Slavery -- 4. Nature's Nobleman: Abraham Lincoln and the Improvement of America -- 5. The Nature of Gettysburg: Environmental History and the Civil War -- 6. Iron Horses: Nature and the Building of the First U.S. Transcontinental Railroad -- 7. Atomic Sublime: Toward a Natural History of the Bomb -- 8. The Road to Brown v. Board: An Environmental History of the Color Line -- 9. It's a Gas: The United States and the Oil Shock of 1973-1974 -- Paths That Beckon -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Illustration Credits -- Index
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