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Bezig met laden... Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West (Western History Series) (2017)door Sara Dant
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"Historical narratives often concentrate on wars and politics while omitting the central role and influence of the physical stage on which history is carried out. In Losing Eden award-winning historian Sara Dant debunks the myth of the American West as "Eden" and instead embraces a more realistic and complex understanding of a region that has been inhabited and altered by people for tens of thousands of years. In this lively narrative Dant discusses the key events and topics in the environmental history of the American West, from the Beringia migration, Columbian Exchange, and federal territorial acquisition to post-World War II expansion, resource exploitation, and current climate change issues. Losing Eden is structured around three important themes: balancing economic success and ecological destruction, creating and protecting public lands, and achieving sustainability. This revised and updated edition incorporates the latest science and thinking. It also features a new chapter on climate change in the American West, a larger reflection on the region's multicultural history, updated current events, expanded and diversified suggested readings, along with new maps and illustrations. Cohesive and compelling, Losing Eden recognizes the central role of the natural world in the history of the American West and provides important analysis on the continually evolving relationship between the land and its inhabitants"--
"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"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The American West is defined as that which lay west of the 100th parallel, an appropriate definition since that land receives less rainfall than the land to its east and requires a very different land management ethos.
The author quickly goes over the wide swath of history of the land, both in terms of its geologic and its Indigenous history. The majority of the book describes the treatment of the land by Americans: its settlement, its exploitative abuse, movements toward conservation or preservation, resistance to conservation or preservation, the birth of the environmental movement, and the backlash to the environmental movement, bringing us to the near present day.
The author thus well describes how the American West has been exploited, particularly for the material and economic gain of the American East, how its development is unsustainable and was known as such for almost 150 years, and encourages a healthier land ethic. As indicated, the American West was never the Eden it was imagined to be, but it is certainly being lost.
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