The Farmer's Last Frontier
The Farmer's Last Frontier

Author: Fred Albert Shannon

Publisher: M.E. Sharpe

Published: 1945

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9780873320993

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Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and expansion of agriculture across the USA during the last half of the 19th century.

City of Wood
City of Wood

Author: James Michael Buckley

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1477330240

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"In City of Wood, architectural historian James Buckley explores San Francisco's rapid urban development as a product of the physical and economic transformation of the natural environment of the American West. San Francisco is best known as a product of the gold and silver that were mined from California's mountains and streams, but as Buckley shows, the city's growth was in fact fueled by a wide range of natural resources that could be converted into marketable commodities. City of Wood investigates the architecture of a typical Western resource industry--redwood lumber--to determine how the exploitation of California's natural resources shaped the built environment of both San Francisco and its broader hinterland"--

Green Backlash
Green Backlash

Author: Jacqueline Vaughn

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781555876357

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Demonstrates that contemporary forms of opposition to the environmental movement and environmental protection have a common, traceable ancestry in resistance against federal resource policies in the West. Identifies the changing role of the federal government in its natural resource policies, looking at rivalries between different agencies. Analyzes environmental opposition from a political perspective to explain how it fits into a larger political process, examining tactics used by business and grassroots groups in the environmental opposition and groups' linkages to philosophical and ideological agendas such as the modern conservative and libertarian movements. For activists and scholars. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR