Reimagining Environmental History - 9781943859511

Reimagining Environmental HistoryEcological Memory in the Wake of Landscape Change\nAuthor(s): Christian Knoeller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nevada Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nevada Press\nISBN-13: 9781943859511, 978-1943859511\nSynopsis\nChristian Knoeller presents a radical reinterpretation of environmental history set in the heartland of America. In an excellent model of narrative-based scholarship, this book dynamically reimagines American environmentalism across generations of writers, artists, and scientists. Knoeller starts out with Audubon, and cites Thoreaus journals in the 1850s as he assesses an early 17th century account of New Englands natural resources by William Wood, showing the epic decline in game and bird populations in Concord. This reading of environmental history is replicated throughout with a gallery of novelists, poets, essayists, and other commentators as they explore ecological memory and environmental destruction. In apt.