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Hist 3144: American Environmental History Reading Guide for Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth In this book, Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping and very readable synthesis of American environmental history from the break-up of Pangea to the present. We will be dipping into parts of this book throughout the semester. I want you to bring in your questions and comments for our discussions, but to give you a bit more guidance on things to keep an eye out for as you read the first several chapters of this book, I have put together this reading guide.
Authors often lay out their argument in the preface. Reading them carefully is a good idea. What is the goal of this book? How have historians tended to view the environment? How does Steinberg want them to change their view? What three turning points does he stress?
What is the overall argument (presented near the end of the preface)? Why does Steinberg begin with Pangea? Why does America's 'place on the globe' need to be taken seriously? Why is the continent so suitable for agriculture? What natural resources are found there? Cheryl Pepsii Thanks For My Child Mp3 Download on this page.
What effect did glaciation have? What does he mean when he talks about the earth being taken seriously as an actor?
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Chapter 1: Wilderness Under Fire 7. How do we typically think about Indians and their relationship with the land? How does Steinberg challenge this view?
What are the Pleistocene extinctions (overkill) and what implications do they have? What is the significance of the debate about native American populations? What does Steinberg mean by the chapter heading 'Many Egg Baskets?' How did Indians manipulate their environment? What kind of agriculture did they pursue? What two points about their relationship with the land does Steinberg stress? How did Indians view nature?
Why did Indians light fires? What impact did they have?
Was America a pristine wilderness at the time of first European contact? Chapter 2: A Truly New World 14. What role did the environment play in the downfall of the Roanoke and Jamestown settlements? What is the 'Little Ice Age?' Why did native Americans lack immunities to many epidemic diseases? What happened when Europeans arrived on the continent?
What percentage of Indians died from epidemic disease? Which diseases were most deadly and why?
What besides diseases did Europeans introduce into the New World? The historian Alfred Crosby has written a great deal about this process. He refers to the movement of organisms between the Old and New World as the 'Columbia exchange'; and he refers to the process of biological takeover of the New World as 'ecological imperialism.'
What crops did Europeans take back from the New World to the Old? What cultural beliefs that impacted the land did Europeans introduce to the New World? How did Indians view property? What consequences did the fur trade have?
What does he mean by 'commodification' and 'transatlantic commerce?' How were America's woodlands brought into the orbit of this commerce? Why some forests depleted and what consequences did this have?
What motivated Europeans to journey to North America? What does the term 'ecological windfall' mean? What impact did they have?
Did Europeans manage to liberate themselves from the constraints imposed by the natural world? Chapter 3: Reflections from a Woodlot 21. Note the introduction to Henry D.
Thoreau, about whom we will be reading more soon. What is an ecosystem? What does Steinberg mean when he says that farming is always a 'battle with the natural world, a struggle to keep nature from doing what comes naturally?' How did early American farmers transform the landscape? What is 'extensive' farming? What happened when Europeans introduced their own crops and livestock? How did they respond?