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I agree with Emily on this reading being kind of unclear. I actually couldn't find that strong of a connection to the environmental history aspect of th reading because, it just made connections to s ...

At first, I found the way Cronon wrote to be almost annoying. The first couple pages came off as almost arrogant to me. As I read on, his points were beginning to make more and more sense to me unti ...

This was another reading that got me depressed. I found it disturbing how private tourism corporations could so easily interfere with a government run service (National Park Service) and, in the bigge ...

Everyone's posts are getting me to think that nature isn't composed of rocks, trees, and animals, like what most children would consider it, but it is (imo) everything that the randomness of the unive ...

"Early park officials realized that even the slightest fear of Indian attack could prevent tourists from experiencing all the benefits and enjoyments that Yellowstone had to offer the American pe ...

The "The West" is an idea behind a direction. It's the idea of an untamed wilderness that's just begging to be conquered (and exploited.)

While doing the reading, I made the connection that white civilization in America had gotten to a point where you never really need to live in a place with an abundance of resources because those reso ...

I think that Isenberg's thesis was that the Great Plains Indians were forced by to rely solely on bison, and in turn switched over to a nomadic lifestyle all because of European influences.

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*What does it mean/matter if colonists and Native Americans view ownership differently? Do you think it actually has any bearing on the outcome of their interactions, in the long run? Why/why not?
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What struck me most about this reading was the explanation of "Natural Philosophy" and description of its application to race in colonial America. I found that it was very similar to Enviro ...

This was the kind of stuff that really makes me hate being a white person and knowing that I am still contributing to systems made by white people. I was made particularly angry at the "Potentia ...

Cronon: Environmental History is the study of past actions and consequences between humans and nature that can be used to make predictions about the future relationship between humans and nature.

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Like the last two readings, I found one of them to be more content based while the other was more method based. Carolyn Merchant's piece, in this respect, was similar to Jared Diamond's based on her l ...

"Doing Environmental History"
When I was reading the Worster essay, there was a point that he was making that impacted me the most. He explained the broadening and increasing objectivity of ...