![]() ![]() He wants us to see that nature is not a stable backdrop to human action, but an unpredictable force that shapes and limits human action in the world. The section on rationalization focuses on the ways those ecologies were modified as they were incorporated into the capitalist market, while the final chapters emphasize how modern consumer society has increasingly obscured the ecological networks within which Americans live and work. The first chapters recount the attempts of newcomers to work within new and unfamiliar ecologies, whether the New England climate or the southern tidelands. In the process, he offers an original periodization of American history organized around three themes: colonization (1500–1800), rationalization (1800–1900), and consumption (1900–2000). Writing for a broad audience of American historians and their students who might otherwise ignore nature altogether, he rebuts any notion that environmental history is marginal to the larger field. With this book, Ted Steinberg boldly places the environment at the center of an important new synthesis of American history. ![]()
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