MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
STUDY GUIDE
Part I
Chapter Outlines and Discussion Questions
Environmental History Quotations
1. What is Environmental History?
2. Native American Ecology and European Contact
3. The New England Forest in the Seventeenth Century
4. Soil Exhaustion in the Early Tobacco South
5. Farm Ecology in the Early Republic
6. Nature Versus Civilization in the Nineteenth Century
7. The Cotton South Before and After the Civil War
8. Mining California's Earth in the Nineteenth Century
9. Great Plains Grasslands Exploited
10. Resource Conservation in an Industrializing Society
11. Wilderness Preservation at the Turn of the Century
12. Urban Pollution and Reform in the Twentieth Century
13. The Emergence of Ecology in the Twentieth Century
14. From Conservation to Environment in the Mid-Twentieth Century