Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature write by William Cronon. This book was released on 1996-10. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays historicizes the divorce of the 'natural' from the human, and shows that 'nature' is a human construction, arguing that what we have constructed we can reconstruct.
Uncommon Ground
Uncommon Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uncommon Ground write by William Cronon. This book was released on 1995. Uncommon Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provocative essays by revisionist historians, scientists, and cultural critics explore the connection between nature and American culture, analyzing how it is packaged and presented at places such as Sea World and the Nature Company stores.
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West write by William Cronon. This book was released on 2009-11-02. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe
Changes in the Land
Changes in the Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Changes in the Land write by William Cronon. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Changes in the Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
Beyond Naturalness
Beyond Naturalness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Naturalness write by David N. Cole. This book was released on 2012-06-22. Beyond Naturalness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The central concept guiding the management of parks and wilderness over the past century has been “naturalness”—to a large extent the explicit purpose in establishing these special areas was to keep them in their “natural” state. But what does that mean, particularly as the effects of stressors such as habitat fragmentation, altered disturbance regimes, pollution, invasive species, and climate change become both more pronounced and more pervasive? Beyond Naturalness brings together leading scientists and policymakers to explore the concept of naturalness, its varied meanings, and the extent to which it provides adequate guidance regarding where, when, and how managers should intervene in ecosystem processes to protect park and wilderness values. The main conclusion is the idea that naturalness will continue to provide an important touchstone for protected area conservation, but that more specific goals and objectives are needed to guide stewardship. The issues considered in Beyond Naturalness are central not just to conservation of parks, but to many areas of ecological thinking—including the fields of conservation biology and ecological restoration—and represent the cutting edge of discussions of both values and practice in the twenty-first century. This bookoffers excellent writing and focus, along with remarkable clarity of thought on some of the difficult questions being raised in light of new and changing stressors such as global environmental climate change.
