Course29 lectures23 h 45 min
ESPM 160AC - Fall 2006
Carolyn Merchant · University of California, Berkeley
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ESPM 160AC: American Environmental and Cultural History - Fall 2006. History of the American environment and the ways in which different cultural groups have perceived, used, managed, and conserved it from colonial times to the present. Cultures include American Indians and European and African Americans. Natural resources development includes gathering-hunting-fishing; farming, mining, ranching, forestry, and urbanization. Changes in attitudes and behaviors toward nature and past and present conservation and environmental movements are also examined.
American Environmental and Cultural History
Lectures
- Course Introduction
- What is Environmental History
- Native American Ecology and European Contact 1
- Native American Ecology and European Contact 2
- The New England Forest in the Seventeenth Century 1
- The New England Forest in the Seventeenth Century 2
- Tobacco and Rice in the Colonial South 1
- Tobacco and Rice in the Colonial South 2
- Farms and Cities in the Early Republic 1
- Farms and Cities in the Early Republic 2
- Nature and the Market in the Nineteenth Century 1
- Nature and the Market in the Nineteenth Century 2
- The Cotton South Before and After the Civil War 1
- The Cotton South Before and After the Civil War 2
- Extracting the Far West in the Nineteenth Century 2
- Extracting the Far West in the Nineteenth Century 3
- Great Plains Grasslands Exploited 1
- Great Plains Grasslands Exploited 2
- Resource Conservation in the Twentieth Century 1
- Resource Conservation in the Twentieth Century 2
- Wilderness Preservation in the Twentieth Century 1
- Wilderness Preservation in the Twentieth Century 2
- Cities, Industry, and Pollution in the Twentieth Century 1
- Cities, Industry, and Pollution in the Twentieth Century 2
- The Emergence of Ecology in the Twentieth Century
- Water, Energy, and Pollution in the Twentieth Century 1
- Water, Energy, and Pollution in the Twentieth Century 2
- Globalization: The United States in the Wider World 1
- Globalization: The United States in the Wider World 2
Credits and licence
- Institution
- University of California, Berkeley
- Teacher
- Carolyn Merchant
- Year
- 2006
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Earth and environment, History
- Source
- Internet Archive
- Licence
- Internet Archive states no licence for it. Internet Archive's terms
- Attribution
- 2006 Regents of the University of California
- Who can watch
- Internet Archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed