Destroy To Create; Interaction With The Natural Environment In The Building Of America

Lyn White: The Historical Roots Of Our Ecologic Crisis -- Part One The American Setting, 1607-1860. Chapter 1. Virgin Land: The Continent As It Was ; Captain John Smith: America ; Lewis And Clark: Journals ; Chapter 2. Early Attitudes Toward Commercial And Industrial Growth ; Samuel Slater: A Cotton Manufacturer's View ; Alexander Hamilton: A Defense Of Federal Aid To Manufacture ; Henry Clay: In Defense Of The American System ; Chapter 3. The Realities Of Industrialization And Urbanization ; Charles Dickens: American Notes ; Walt Whitman: This Compost And Give Me The Splendid Silent Sun ; Chapter 4. Exploitative Agriculture ; Views On Agricultural Reform From De Bow's Review ; Chapter 5. Defenders Of Unspoiled Nature ; Henry David Thoreau: The Maine Woods And Nature ; James Fenimore Cooper: The Pioneers ; George Catlin: An Artist's Philosophy. Part Two Beginnings Of The Conservation Movement, 1860-1901. Chapter 6. A Conservation Prophet ; George P. Marsh: Man And Nature, 1864 ; Chapter 7. Concert For Government Control ; Nathaniel Pitt Langford: The Discovery Of Yellow Stone Park, 1870 ; John Wesley Powell: Report On The Lands Of The Arid Region Of The United States (1878) ; Frederick Law Olmsted: The Public Park Movement, 1870 -- Part Three Politics, Technology, And The Conservation Movement, 1901-1933. Chapter 8. The Era And Influence Of Theodore Roosevelt ; Theodore Roosevelt: Natural Resources ; Gifford Pinchot: The Conservation Of Natural Resources ; Chapter 9. Early Twentieth-century Critics ; John Muir: Hetch Hetchy Valley ; Jens Jensen: Towns And Preservation Of Our River Courses And Their Natural Setting ; Mary B. Hartt: The Passing Of Niagara ; Margaret Sanger: Women And Birth Control. Chapter 10. Smoldering Controversies ; Struthers Burt: The Battle Of Jackson's Hole ; Allan Mclaughlin: Eliminating Pollution From The Great Lakes ; Donald C. Swain: The Muscle Shoals Controversy -- Part Four Conservation Functionalism, 1933-1950. Chapter 11. The Tragedy Of The Farmers ; Caroline A. Henderson: Letters From The Dust Bowl ; Chapter 12. Developing Conservation Concepts ; Erich Zimmerman: The Nature Of Resources ; Stuart Chase: Rich Land, Poor Land ; Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac ; Henry A. Wallace: Views On Forestry And Agriculture -- Part Five Conflicting Ideologies, 1950-1970. Chapter 13. Gloom And Doom ; Croswell Bowen: Donora, Pennsylvania ; Fairfield Osborn: Our Plundered Planet ; Harrison Brown: The Challenge Of Man's Future. [compiled By] Duke Frederick, William L. Howenstine [and] June Sochen.