Environmental Discourse and Practice A Reader [Paperback]

• Provides both historical background and an analysis of key debates and theories
• Based on tried and tested classroom teaching material
• Uses the idea of environmental discourses to explain human-environmental relationships

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Native Americans and the Environment:.

1. A Spider's Web (1961): Black Elk.

2. The Ties that Bind (1990): Annie L. Booth and Harvey M. Jacobs.

3. How Can One Sell the Air: A Manifesto for the Earth (ca. 1855): Chief Seattle.

4. The Cycle of Life (1990): Audrey Shenandoah.

5. An Iroquois Perspective (1980): Oren Lyons.

Part II: Colonial Encounters:.

Introduction.

6. A Certaine Indian (1621): William Bradford.

7. The Indians Grew Very Inquisitive (1647): John Winthrop.

8. Before They Got Thick (ca. Early Nineteenth Century): Percy Bigmouth.

9. Give Us Good Goods (1743): Anonymous.

10. The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492 (1992): William M. Denevan.

11. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism and the Cant of Conquest (1975): Francis Jennings.

12. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (1983): William Cronon.

13. The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (1972): Alfred W. Crosby Jr.

Part III: Territorial Expansion:.

Introduction.

14. Moving West (1797): Daniel Boone.

15. The 1785 Ordnance.