Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940University of Washington Press, 23.11.2009 - 416 Seiten Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of Oregon's environmental history involves far more than a discussion of timber cutting and land-use planning. |
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... Ecological Context 23 The Great Divide 50 II / Settler Occupation and the Advent of Industrialism , 1850-1890 Prescripting the Landscape 81 Technology and Abundance 110 Into the Hinterland 142 III / Extending the Industrial ...
... ecology with a critical analysis of economic change , he offers a much fuller understanding of how the Oregon country developed between the arrival of Lewis and Clark and the advent of World War II . As such , Landscapes of Promise is a ...
... ecological cost whose full scale remains unknown and whose future sustainability this book is inclined to question . By the time Landscapes of Promise ends , in 1940 , the distinctive features of modern Oregon were already largely in ...
... ecological , cultural , or political - are the beginning point for understand- ing human / cultural relationships with the natural world . Indeed , some of the best environmental monographs to date are studies of particular places ...
... ecology . The southern markers to politically bounded Oregon acknowledged treaties between expanding and declining empires - the United States , Spain , and Mexico- and the subsequent division of the victor's spoils into convenient ...
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II Settler Occupation and the Advent of Industrialism 18501890 | 79 |
III Extending the Industrial Infrastructure 18901940 | 177 |
One Moment in Time | 296 |
Notes | 311 |
Bibliography | 355 |
Index | 377 |
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Landscapes of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940 William G. Robbins Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |