American Environmental History

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: What Is Environmental History?.

1. The Natures of Indian America before Columbus.

2. The Other Invaders: Deadly Diseases and Extraordinary Animals.

3. Colonial Natures: Marketing The Countryside.

4. Forest and Plantation in Nineteenth-Century America.

5. Urban Nature and Urban Reforms.

6. Markets, and the Disappearing Bison.

7. The Many Uses of Conservation.

8. National Parks and The Trouble With Wilderness.

9. Something In The Wind: Radiation, Pesticides, and Air Pollution.

10. Environmental Protection and The Environmental Movement.

11. Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice.

12. Backlash against the Environmental Movement.

13. Legacies.

Index.