Lecture Outlines

Class lecture outlines for ESPM 160 can be accessed and printed by the links below.

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Week 1

1.1 Introduction

1.2 What is Environmental History?

Week 2

2.1 Native American Ecology and European Contact

2.2 Native American Ecology and European Contact

Week 3

3.1 The New England Forest in the Seventeenth Century

3.2 The New England Forest in the Seventeenth Century

Week 4

4.1 Tobacco and Rice in the Colonial South

4.2 Tobacco and Rice in the Colonial South

Week 5

5.1 Farms and Cities in the Early Republic

5.2 Farms and Cities in the Early Republic

Week 6

6.1 Nature and the Market in the Nineteenth Century

6.2 Nature and the Market in the Nineteenth Century

Week 7

7.1 The Cotton South Before and After the Civil War

7.2 The Cotton South Before and After the Civil War

Week 8

8.1 Extracting the Far West in the Nineteenth Century

8.2 Extracting the Far West in the Nineteenth Century

Week 9

9.1 Great Plains Grasslands Exploited

9.2 Great Plains Grasslands Exploited

Week 10

10.1 Resource Conservation in the Twentieth Century

10.2 Resource Conservation in the Twentieth Century

Week 11

11.1 Wilderness Preservation in the Twentieth Century

11.2 Wilderness Preservation in the Twentieth Century

Week 12

12.1 Cities, Industry, and Pollution in the Twentieth Century

12.2 Cities, Industry, and Pollution in the Twentieth Century

Week 13

13.1 The Emergence of Ecology in the Twentieth Century

13.2 The Emergence of Ecology in the Twentieth Century

Week 14

14.1 Water, Energy, and Population in the Twentieth Century

Week 15

15.1 Globalization: The United States in the Wider World