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American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
Stoll traces the origins of nineteenth-century conservation, which grew out of a rich and heated discussion, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, about soil fertility, plant nutrition, and livestock management. More fundamental than any other resource, soil “became the focal point for a conception of nature as strictly limited.” The problem gave rise to a major disagreement about the wisdom of territorial expansion.