This innovative book provides a dynamic-and often surprising-view of the range of environmental issues facing the United States today. A distinguished group of scholars examines the growing temporal, spatial, and thematic breadth of topics historical geographers are now exploring. Seventeen original chapters examine topics such as forest conservation, mining landscapes, urban environment justice, solid waste, exotic species, environmental photography, national and state park management, recreation and tourism, and pest control. Commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the seminal work The American Environment: Interpretations of Past Geographies, the book clearly shows much has changed since 1992. Indeed, not only has the range of issues expanded, but an increasing number of geographers are forging links with environmental historians, promoting a level of intellectual cross-fertilization that benefits both disciplines. As a result, environmental historical geographies today are richer and more diverse than ever. The American Environment Revisited offers a comprehensive overview that gives both specialist and general readers a fascinating look at our changing relationships with nature over time.
Preface Craig E. Colten and Lary M. Dilsaver Introduction Geoffrey L. Buckley and Yolonda Youngs Part I: Nature Gone Wild Chapter 1: Toward a Historical Geography of Human-Invasive Species Relations: How Kudzu Came to Belong in the American South Derek H. Alderman Chapter 2: Unruly Domestic Environments: Do-It-Yourself Pesticides, Gender, and Regulation in Post-World War II Homes Dawn Biehler Chapter 3: From Noble Stag to Suburban Vermin: The Return of Deer to the Northeast United States Bob Wilson Part II: Parks and Recreation Chapter 4: Wild, Unpredictable, and Dangerous: A Historical Geography of Hazards and Risks in U.S. National Parks Yolonda Youngs Chapter 5: Migration and Social Justice in Wilderness Creation Katie Algeo and Collins Eke Chapter 6: Racialized Assemblages and State Park Design in the Jim Crow South William E. O'Brien Chapter 7: Shredding Mountain Lines: GoPro, Mobility, and the Spatial Politics of Outdoor Sports Annie Gilbert Coleman Part III: Living in the City Chapter 8: Frederick Law Olmsted's Abandoned San Francisco Park Plan Terence Young Chapter 9: Inventing Phoenix: Land Use, Politics, and Environmental Justice Abigail M. York and Christopher G. Boone Chapter 10: Fresh Kills Landfill: Landscape to Wastescape to Ecoscape Martin V. Melosi Part IV: Transforming the Environment Chapter 11: Progressive Legacy: Fred Besley and the Rise of Professional Forestry in Maryland Geoffrey L. Buckley Chapter 12: Gold vs. Grain: Oblique Ecologies of Hydraulic Mining in California Gareth Hoskins Chapter 13: Bridging the Florida Keys: Engineering an Environmental Transformation, 1904-1912 K. Maria D. Lane Chapter 14: Florida's Springs: Growth, Tourism, and Politics Christopher F. Meindl Part V: Eye on Nature Chapter 15: Reconsidering the Sublime: Images and Imaginative Geographies in American Environmental History Finis Dunaway Chapter 16: American Environmental Photography Steven Hoelscher Chapter 17: Environments of the Imagination Dydia DeLyser Afterword William Wyckoff
