HISTORY 371 - Environmental History of the American West

Institution:

Reed College

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Description:

Full course for one semester. With its majestic beauty, strange landscapes, and abundant natural resources, the American West has inspired wonderment, desire, and fear in many who traveled there. This course will examine concepts and representations of Western nature and Western peoples in the late 19th and 20th centuries. We will ask how the Western landscape, environment, and economy have been shared and shaped by a diverse array of individuals, communities, and institutions. Topics will include land rights, wilderness and frontiers, urbanization, conservation, extractive economies, disease and the body, and the rise of green politics in the postwar West. We will ask how environmental history contributes to our understanding of the political, social, and cultural history of the American West, and how, in turn, the history of the West contributes to our understanding of the environment. Conference.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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