Study Guide

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

Introduction.

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.

15. The Contemporary Environmental Movement