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George Perkins Marsh, prophet of conservation / David Lowenthal ; foreword by William Cronon.
Van Pelt Library E415.9.M185 L6 2000
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowenthal, David.
- Series:
- Weyerhaeuser environmental book
- Weyerhaeuser environmental books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marsh, George P. (George Perkins), 1801-1882.
- Marsh, George P.
- Statesmen--United States--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- Environmental conditions.
- United States.
- Conservationists--United States--Biography.
- Conservationists.
- United States--Environmental conditions.
- United States--Foreign relations--1861-1865.
- International relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--1865-1898.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 605 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- In the Pacific Northwest, the river of dominance is the Columbia, and in ways both profound and mundane its history is the history of the region. In Great River of the West historians and anthropologists consider a range of topics about the river, from Indian rock art, Chinook Jargon, and ethnobotany on the Columbia to literary and family history, the creation of an engineered river, and the inherent mythic power of place.
- Since first contact between Euro-Americans and Native peoples during the late 18th century, the river's history has been characterized by dramatic demographic, social, and economic changes. The remarkable set of essays in Great River of the West investigate these changes by highlighting important episodes in the history of the river. Readers meet mariners who challenge the Columbia River bar, a family torn by insanity, Native people who preserve fishing traditions, and dam-builders who radically change the Columbia.
- Contents:
- 1. Woodstock and the First Watershed 3
- 2. Burlington: Blunders and Bereavements 31
- 3. Puritans, Vikings, Goths 48
- 4. Congress and the Smithsonian 68
- 5. American History from the Ground Up 89
- 6. Constantinople and the Desert 109
- 7. Missionary Miseries, Mediterranean Jaunts 135
- 8. Debts and Dromedaries 154
- 9. Vermont Public Servant 181
- 10. The English Language 197
- 11. Risorgimento and Civil War 220
- 12. Turin and the Alps 242
- 13. Man and Nature: The Making 267
- 14. Man and Nature: The Meaning 290
- 15. Florence and Unfinished Italy 313
- 16. Last Watersheds: Rome, Cravairola, Vallombrosa 336
- 17. Retrospect: Forming a Life 370
- 18. Prospect: Reforming Nature 404.
- Notes:
- Rev. ed. of: George Perkins Marsh. 1958.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-573) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0295977779
- 0295979429
- OCLC:
- 42810726
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