Shrinking the earth : the rise and decline of American abundance /
"The discovery of the Americas around 1500 AD was an extraordinary watershed in human experience. It gave rise to the modern period of human ecology, a phenomenon global in scope that set in motion profound changes in almost every society on earth. This new period, which saw the depletion of th...
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Oxford University Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Shrinking the Earth; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Images of Earth; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Gatsby's Green Light; Part I Second Earth; Chapter 1: The Discovery of Natural Abundance; Chapter 2: Many Revolutions Follow; Chapter 3: Ultimately, Stability; Field trip:"Nantucket Island; Part II After the Frontier; Chapter 4: The Watershed; Chapter 5: Land of Coal and Steel; Chapter 6: The Resourceful State; Field trip:"Imperial Valley; Part III Planet of Limits; Chapter 7: Plunder and Plenty; Chapter 8: The Wolf at the Door; Chapter 9: Earth's Boundaries.
- Field trip:"Athabasca RiverEpilogue; Life on a Pale Blue Dot; Notes; Index.
