American Environmental History ((4 Credits))

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This course examines the changing environmental geography of North America from prehistoric times to the 21st century. Readings cover the history of the physical interactions between humans and the natural world as well as the intellectual transformations and the changing ways in which human societies inhabiting North America have conceptualized the environment. This study focuses on key turning points in U.S. environmental history and the historical forces behind those transformations in the modern era, emphasizing events in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.