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ESPM 160AC American Environmental and Cultural History

10:00-11:00 AM | 101 Barker
Instructor Carolyn Merchant

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.


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Lecture Archive
Mon 8/28 Course Introduction
Wed 8/30 What is Environmental History
Fri 9/1 ESPM 160: Lecture 3 - Film podcast unavailable
Mon 9/4 ESPM 160: Lecture 4 - Holiday
Wed 9/6 Native American Ecology and European Contact 1
Fri 9/8 Native American Ecology and European Contact 2
Mon 9/11 The New England Forest in the Seventeenth Century 1
Wed 9/13 The New England Forest in the Seventeenth Century 2
Fri 9/15 Film podcast unavailable
Mon 9/18 Tobacco and Rice in the Colonial South 1
Wed 9/20 Tobacco and Rice in the Colonial South 2
Fri 9/22 Film: Podcast Unavailable
Mon 9/25 Farms and Cities in the Early Republic 1
Wed 9/27 Farms and Cities in the Early Republic 2
Fri 9/29 Film - Podcast Unavailable
Mon 10/2 Nature and the Market in the Nineteenth Century 1
Wed 10/4 Nature and the Market in the Nineteenth Century 2
Fri 10/6 Film: Podcast Unavailable
Mon 10/9 The Cotton South Before and After the Civil War 1
Wed 10/11 The Cotton South Before and After the Civil War 2
Mon 10/16 Extracting the Far West in the Nineteenth Century 1 (podcast not available)
Wed 10/18 Extracting the Far West in the Nineteenth Century 2
Fri 10/20 Extracting the Far West in the Nineteenth Century 3
Mon 10/23 Great Plains Grasslands Exploited 1
Wed 10/25 Great Plains Grasslands Exploited 2
Fri 10/27 Film (podcast unavailable)
Mon 10/30 Resource Conservation in the Twentieth Century 1
Wed 11/1 Resource Conservation in the Twentieth Century 2
Mon 11/6 Wilderness Preservation in the Twentieth Century 1
Wed 11/8 Wilderness Preservation in the Twentieth Century 2
Fri 11/10 ESPM 160: Lecture 33- Holiday
Mon 11/13 Cities, Industry, and Pollution in the Twentieth Century 1
Wed 11/15 Cities, Industry, and Pollution in the Twentieth Century 2
Fri 11/17 Film podcast unavailable
Mon 11/20 The Emergence of Ecology in the Twentieth Century
Fri 11/24 ESPM 160: Lecture 39- Holiday
Mon 11/27 Water, Energy, and Pollution in the Twentieth Century 1
Wed 11/29 Water, Energy, and Pollution in the Twentieth Century 2
Mon 12/4 Globalization: The United States in the Wider World 1
Fri 12/8 Globalization: The United States in the Wider World 2