Study Guide

Study Guide Outlines and Questions should be read and answered prior to attending that week's discussion section.

Introduction

Environmental History Quotations

Environmental History Chronology

Environmental History Timeline

1. What is Environmental History?

2. Native American Ecology and European Contact

3. The New England Forest in the Seventeenth Century

4. Tobacco and Rice in the Colonial South

5. Farms and Cities in the Early Republic

6. Nature and the Market in the Nineteenth Century

7. The Cotton South Before and After the Civil War

8. Extracting the Far West in the Nineteenth Century

9. Great Plains Grasslands Exploited

10. Resource Conservation in the Twentieth Century

11. Wilderness Preservation in the Twentieth Century

12. Cities, Industry, and Pollution in the Twentieth Century

13. The Emergence of Ecology in the Twentieth Century

14. Water, Energy, and Population in the Twentieth Century

15. Globalization: The United States in the Wider World