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Consuming Nature by Gregory Summers
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Publication Date: 2006
In Consuming Nature, he tells of an early confrontation that set the stage for Silent Spring, pushing the dawn of environmental politics back several decades. Summers takes readers to Wisconsin's Fox River Valley more than fifty years ago to recount how technological and economic progress contributed to residents' growing opposition to the industrial pollution of the river
US Environmental History by John Wills
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Publication Date: 2012
Environmental issues in the US are more important now than ever before. John Wills shows how the current crisis is firmly rooted in the past. As well as showing how today's problems are manifestations of older systems of economics, culture & politics, he argues that America has already witnessed a range of 'doomsday scenarios, ' both real & imagined.
Northeast and Midwest United States by John T. Cumbler; Mark R. Stoll (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2005
An engaging, personalized look at the interplay between people and nature in the northeastern and midwestern United States, from prehistory to the present.

American Wilderness by Michael Lewis
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Publication Date: 2010
This collected volume of original essays proposes to address the state of scholarship on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of Americans responses to wilderness from first contact to the present. While not bringing a synthetic narrative to wilderness, the volume will gather competing interpretations of wilderness in historical context.
Banning DDT by Bill Berry
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Publication Date: 2014
On a December day in 1968, DDT went on trial in Madison, Wisconsin. In Banning DDT: How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way, Bill Berry details how the citizens, scientists, reporters, and traditional conservationists drew attention to the harmful effects of "the miracle pesticide" DDT, which was being used to control Dutch elm disease
The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History by Carolyn Merchant
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Publication Date: 2005
How and why have Americans living at particular times and places used and transformed their environment? How have political systems dealt with conflicts over resources and conservation? This is the only major reference work to explore all the major themes and debates of the burgeoning field of environmental history.
A Companion to American Environmental History by Douglas Cazaux Sackman (Editor)
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Publication Date: 2010
A Companion to American Environmental History gathers together a comprehensive collection of over 30 essays that examine the evolving and diverse field of American environmental history. Provides a complete historiography of American environmental history.
First along the River: a Brief History of the U. S. Environmental Movement by Benjamin Kline
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Publication Date: 2011
First Along the River provides students with a balanced, historical perspective on the history of the environmental movement in relation to major social and political events in U.S. history, from the pre-colonial era to the present.
On the Hunt by Robert C. Willging
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Publication Date: 2008
On the Hunt is the story of deer-hunting in Wisconsin, from the spear-throwing Paleo-Indians to the sportsmen of today. Meticulously researched by one of the state's most prolific outdoor writers, On the Hunt covers subsistence and sport hunting, deer camps, changing deer management policies, and recent developments and controversies, from human encroachment on deer habitat to CWDs.
A Storied Wilderness by James W. Feldman; William Cronon (Foreword by)
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Publication Date: 2011
Storied Wilderness traces the complex history of human interaction with the Apostle Islands. The Apostle Islands are an ideal setting for telling the national story of how we came to equate human activity with the loss of wilderness characteristics when in reality all of our cherished wild places are the products of the complicated interactions between human and natural history.

Cut and Run Logging by Mike Monte
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Publication Date: 2002
This fascinating book presents true-life photographic images of the loggers and the people they touched.
Protectors of the Land and Water by Thomas R. Huffman
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Publication Date: 1994
Thomas Huffman traces the rise of environmentalism in the Badger State during these key years, when the people of Wisconsin instituted policies in such areas as outdoor recreation and resource planning, water pollution control, the preservation of wild rivers, and centralized environmental management.
Wisconsin's Past and Present by Wisconsin Cartographers Guild Staff; Zoltan Grossman (Contribution by)
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Publication Date: 1998
The Atlas explores the history of indigenous cultures, immigrant groups, natural resources, agriculture, industries, boundaries, political and social movements, and government institutions in lively detail.
Wisconsin Land and Life by Robert C. Ostergren; Thomas R. Vale (Contribution by)
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Publication Date: 1997
This book, Wisconsin Land and Life, is an exploration of place, a series of original essays by Wisconsin geographers that offers an introduction to the state's natural environment, the historical processes of its human habitation, and the ways that nature and people interact to create distinct regional landscapes.

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