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Introduction - Landscape and its Remaking |
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| 2-3 |
Colonial American Land Use |
 Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 2003. pp. 3-107. ISBN: 9780809016341. |
| 4-5 |
Industrial America in the Countryside |
Steinberg, Theodore. Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. pp. 1-75. ISBN: 9780521527118. |
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Places and How We Know Them |
Basso, Keith. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. pp. 3-104. ISBN: 9780826317247. |
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Railroads and Colonization
Film: The Iron Road |
Stilgoe, John. Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1985. pp. 189-221. ISBN: 9780300034813.
Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. pp. 55-93. ISBN: 9780393308730.
Goodwin, Neil (director/producer). The Iron Road. 60 min. PBS/WGBH Boston, 1990. Videocassette. |
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Making an Agricultural Landscape
Films: The Plow that Broke the Plains and The River |
Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. pp. 97-147. ISBN: 9780393308730.
Steinberg, Theodore. Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. pp. 71-115. ISBN: 9780195140101.
Lorentz, Pare. The Plow That Broke the Plains. Directed by Pare Lorentz. 25 min. Resettlement Administration (A U.S. Documentary Film), 1936. Videocassette.
———. The River. Directed by Pare Lorentz. 31 min. Farm Security Administration (A U.S. Documentary Film), 1938. Videocassette. |
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Midterm |
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| 12-13 |
Creating American Parklands |
Pinchot, Gifford. The Fight for Conservation. New York, NY: Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1910. pp. 3-20, 120-147.
———. The Fight for Conservation. Albany, NY: Exams Unlimited, Incorporated, 2002. ISBN: 1591320771.
Muir, John. Our National Parks . Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1981. pp. 1-36.
———. Our National Parks: Digital Reprint of 1901 Houghton Mifflin and Company Edition. Albany, NY: Exams Unlimited, Incorporated, 2001. ISBN: 1885343698.
Cronon, William. "The Trouble with Wilderness." In Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature . Edited by William Cronon. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. pp. 69-90. ISBN: 9780393038729.
Steinberg, Theodore. Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. pp. 138-56. ISBN: 9780195140101. |
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Water and the "Hydraulic" Society |
Worster, Donald. Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. pp. 10-25, 100-180. ISBN: 9780195174892. |
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Film: Cadillac Desert |
Else, Jon. Cadillac Desert. Directed by Jon Else and Linda Harrar. 60 min. KTEH San Jose, 1997. Videocassette. |
| 16 |
Rivers, and What They Are Good For |
White, Richard. The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River. New York NY: Hill and Wang, 1996. ISBN: 9780809015832. |
| 17-18 |
Oil, Mining and Energy |
Worster, Donald. "Alaska: The Underworld Erupts." Chapter 9 inUnder Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1994. pp.154-224. ISBN: 9780195086713. |
| 19-20 |
Cities and Growth |
Baron, David. The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004. ISBN: 9780393326345. |
| 21-22 |
The Landscape of Food |
Pollan, Michael. "Naturally: How Organic became a Marketing Niche and a Multibillion-dollar Industry." The New York Times Magazine, May 13, 2001, 30-37, 57-58, 63-64.
Steinberg, Theodore. Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2002. pp. 190-205. ISBN: 9780195140101. |
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Student Presentations |
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