The eternal frontier
The eternal frontier: an ecological history of North America and its peoples Tim Flannery
Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2001.
ISBN: 0871137895
DDC: 508.7
LCC: QH102
Notes:
"First published in 2001 by The Text Publishing Co., Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [358]-395) and index.
Act I. In Which America Is Created and Undone. 1. Ground Zero. 2. The
Reordering of North America. 3. Of Hellbenders and Hoofed Creatures
-- Act 2. In Which America Becomes a Tropical Paradise. 4. First
Contacts. 5. The Bridge over Greenland -- Act 3. In Which America
Becomes a Land of Immigrants. 6. A Fatal Configuration. 7. La Grande
Coupure. 8. A Golden Age. 9. Gateway to the Present. 10. United Lands
of America. 11. Laurentide. 12. Visit to a New World -- Act 4. In
Which America is Discovered. 13. A New World. 14. The Black Hole
Theory of Extinction. 15. Massacring the Mammoth, Dismembering the
Mastodon. 16. The New American Fauna. 17. The Making of the Buffalo.
18. The Rise of Cultures. 19. The Taming of Teosinte -- Act 5. In
Which America Conquers the World. 20. Alternative Americas. 21.
English Colonies All. 22. Conceived in Liberty. 23. The Fatal Impact.
24. America Under the Gun. 25. The Making of a Giant. 26. What's Home
on the Range? 27. Reinventing America.
Language: eng
Physical Description: 404 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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