NORTH AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
Co-listed as CFB 3309

HIST 3309-001C
TTh 12:30PM-1:50—116 Dallas Hall
Andrew Graybill—214-768-2984

 

This course examines the past interactions between human societies and the natural world on the North American continent.  This relationship is complex, for the environment reveals the effects of people’s influences but also shapes human history by creating and limiting our possibilities.  Members of the course will investigate this reciprocal relationship through the investigation of specific themes, including the following: Native American resource management; the ecological impact of European arrival in the New World; resource exploitation and commodification in the industrial age; changing ideas about nature; and the roots of current environmental problems and the political solutions devised to address them.

Readings include:  TBA