Entrée principale:

Petulla, Joseph M.

Titre et auteur:

American environmental history : the exploitation and conservation of natural resources / Joseph M. Petulla.

Publication:

San Francisco, Ca. : Boyd & Fraser Pub. Co., ©1977.

Description:

399 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The land and its imperial suitors -- Mercantilism and colonial resources -- Everyday life and revolutionary developments -- Frontier land, Indians, and speculators -- Resource enterprises -- Solving problems of capital and transport -- Advancing frontiers -- The mineral treasury of the West -- The rise of resource industrialism -- Farmers and cattlemen -- Seeds of the conservation movement -- Prosperity, profits, and progressives -- Struggles of early conservationists -- The beginning of the modern era -- The new deal and conservation -- Sources of American abundance -- Effects of American abundance.

ISBN:

0878350586
9780878350582
0878350551 (pbk.)
9780878350551 (pbk.)

Sujet:

Natural resources United States History.
Conservation of natural resources United States History.
Human ecology United States History.
Environmental policy United States History.
Environnement Politique gouvernementale États-Unis Histoire.
Conservation of natural resources.
Environmental policy.
Human ecology.
Natural resources.
United States History.
United States.

Classification/genre:

History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 38082
Cote: PO10947; ID:88-B8970
Statut: Disponible