An Unsettled Country by Donald Worster
The West remains unsettled--by cultural habits, intellectual debate, and ecological conditions. In these four essays, which were presented as the 1992 Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture, Donald Worster incisively discusses the role of the natural environment in the making of the West--and often in its unmaking and remaking. His subjects are four linked topics: the legacy of John Wesley Powell to western resource management; the domination of water policy by state, science, and capital since the mid-nineteenth century; the fate of wildlife in the push to settle the West; and the threat of global warming to the Great Plains. The landscape of the West has for too long been an obstacle to be overcome. But in Worster's view it is in seeing how people have dealt with and, all too often, mishandled nature that gives urgency to better understanding the region's ecological history. Worster argues for a new relationship of western people to their surroundings based on benefits to a community rather than on gains to individuals.
Worster, Donald: - Donald Worster is Honorary Director of the Center for Ecological History at the University of Remnin of China and Hall Distinguished Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Kansas and. He is the author of many books, including A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s, A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell, The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination, and Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780826314826 |
| ISBN 10 | 0826314821 |
| Title | An Unsettled Country |
| Author | Donald Worster |
| Series | Calvin P Horn Lectures In Western History And Culture Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of New Mexico Press |
| Year published | 1994-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 163 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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