| Week 1: Rights and Responsibilities in Commercial Fisheries |
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Arthur F. McEvoy, The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 3-16, 65-119 |
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Trevor Corson, "Stalking the American Lobster," Atlantic Monthly, Apr 2002 |
| Week 2: Railroads and Rural Resources in the 19th Century |
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William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), 55-147 |
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Ronald L. Lewis, Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia, 1880-1920 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), 45-80 |
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The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys, "Orange Blossom Special" |
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Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, "Muleskinner Blues" |
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Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, "Nine Pound Hammer" |
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Reno and Smiley and the Tennessee Cut-Ups, "East Bound Freight Train" |
| Week 3: Rural Industrial Landscapes, part I |
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Robert B. Gordon and Patrick M. Malone, The Texture of Industry: An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 177-223 |
| Week 4: Rural Industrial Landscapes, part II |
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Brian Black, Petrolia: The Landscape of America's First Oil Boom (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), 1-81 |
| Week 5: Urban Industrial Landscapes, part I |
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Joel A. Tarr, "Searching for a 'Sink' for an Industrial Waste," in Out of the Woods: Essays in Environmental History, Char Miller and Hal Rothman, eds. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997) |
| Week 6: Urban Industrial Landscapes, part II |
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Lindy Biggs, The Rational Factory: Architecture, Technology, and Work in America's Age of Mass Production (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 95-160 |
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Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904, Coil Winding Machines |
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Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904, Air-Brake Company |
| Week 7: Conservation and Development in the Progressive Era |
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Samuel P. Hays, Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: The Progressive Conservation Movement, 1890-1920 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959), 1-48, 122-146, 261-276 |
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Benton MacKaye, "The New Exploration: Charting the Industrial Wilderness," Survey Graphic, 1 May 1925 |
| Week 8: Fords and Forests |
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Paul S. Sutter, Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002), 19-99 |
| Week 9: Depression and Disaster |
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Donald Worster, Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), 1-79 |
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Listen to Woody Guthrie, Dust Bowl Ballads |
| Week 10: Annihilating Pests and Enemies |
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Edmund Russell, War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 1-16, 95-164 |
| Week 11: Industrial Cows and Chickens |
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William Boyd, "Making Meat: Science, Technology, and American Poultry Production," Technology and Culture 43 (Oct 2001): 631-64 |
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Michael Pollan, "Power Steer," New York Times Magazine, 11 Mar 2002 |
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., "I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham!" in Sustainable Cuisine White Papers, ed. Leslie Hoffman (New York: Earth Pledge Foundation, 1999) |
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"Tyson Cares about the Environment," Tyson Foods Website |
| Week 12: Biotechnology in Historical Perspective |
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Jack R. Kloppenburg, Jr., First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, 1492-2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 130-151 |