Major Problems in American Environmental History: Documents and EssaysCarolyn Merchant This volume traces the history of the United States environment through examinations of 14 critical issues including pollution, conservation, and wilderness preservation. |
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... South . Ten years later that number had almost doubled again , with 108,395 in the U.S. and 61,241 in the South . Together with their black brothers who had departed with the British , these Revolutionary freedmen represented the first ...
... South . Ten years later that number had almost doubled again , with 108,395 in the U.S. and 61,241 in the South . Together with their black brothers who had departed with the British , these Revolutionary freedmen represented the first ...
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... South . The Exhaustion of the Soils of the Lower South Daniel Lee , editor of the Southern Cultivator , estimated in 1858 that 40 per cent of the South's cotton land was already exhausted , and he was given consider- able support by ...
... South . The Exhaustion of the Soils of the Lower South Daniel Lee , editor of the Southern Cultivator , estimated in 1858 that 40 per cent of the South's cotton land was already exhausted , and he was given consider- able support by ...
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... South ( 1979 ) W. J. Cash , The Mind of the South ( 1941 ) Sydney John Chapman , The Cotton Industry and Trade ( 1905 ) Albert E. Cowdrey , This Land , This South : An Environmental History ( 1983 ) Pete Daniel , Breaking the Land : The ...
... South ( 1979 ) W. J. Cash , The Mind of the South ( 1941 ) Sydney John Chapman , The Cotton Industry and Trade ( 1905 ) Albert E. Cowdrey , This Land , This South : An Environmental History ( 1983 ) Pete Daniel , Breaking the Land : The ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
Donald Worster Ecological History | 31 |
A Spaniard Testifies on the Effects of Pueblo Colonization 1601 | 37 |
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