The Nature of New York
by Stradling, DavidFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-09-16
Publisher(s): Cornell Univ Pr
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Summary
Stradling shows how New York's varied landscape and abundant natural resources have played a fundamental role in shaping the state's culture and economy.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Introduction: Nature is on the Side of New York | p. 1 |
| This Comes of Settling a Country: European Colonization and the Market's Arrival | p. 14 |
| This Wilderness Becomes a Fertile Plain: Engineering the Empire State | p. 46 |
| We are Still in Eden: Romanticism, Tourism, and the Power of Culture | p. 76 |
| Tainted and Unwholesome Atmospheres: Urban Environments, Government, and Reform | p. 106 |
| A Sound Conservation Program: Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Power of Individuals | p. 138 |
| Tracing Man's Progress in Making the Planet Uninhabitable: Environmental Interest Groups and Postwar Threats | p. 173 |
| We Live in This Filth: The Urban Crisis, Environmental Justice, and Threats from Beyond | p. 205 |
| Epilogue: Finding Places in History | p. 235 |
| Notes | p. 243 |
| Bibliographical Essay | p. 251 |
| Index | p. 271 |
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