CONTENTS
| Preface | ix | |
| Acknowledgments | xiii | |
| PROLOGUE Rocks and History | 2 | |
| PART 1 Chaos to Simplicity | ||
| 1 | Wilderness under Fire | 11 |
| 2 | A Truly New World | 21 |
| 3 | Reflections from a Woodlot | 39 |
| PART 2 Rationalization and Its Discontents | ||
| 4 | A World of Commodities | 55 |
| 5 | King Climate in Dixie | 71 |
| 6 | The Great Food Fight | 89 |
| 7 | Extracting the New South | 99 |
| 8 | The Unforgiving West | 116 |
| 9 | Conservation Reconsidered | 138 |
| 10 | Death of the Organic City | 157 |
| PART 3 Consuming Nature | ||
| 11 | Moveable Feast | 175 |
| 12 | The Secret History of Meat | 190 |
| 13 | America in Black and Green | 206 |
| 14 | Throwaway Society | 226 |
| 15 | Shades of Green | 239 |
| 16 | Planet U.S.A. | 262 |
| CONCLUSION Disney Takes on the Animal Kingdom | 282 | |
| Notes | 287 | |
| Bibliography | 311 | |
| Index | 333 | |
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Publication information:
Book title: Down to Earth:Nature's Role in American History.
Contributors: Ted Steinberg - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 2002.
Page number: vii.
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