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Selections in this chapter:

• Donald Worster, from “Transformations of the Earth: Toward an Agroecological Perspective in History” (1990), [650] Go
• William Cronon, from “Modes of Prophecy and Production: Placing Nature in History” (1990), [654] Go
• Leo Marx, from “Sleepy Hollow, 1844” in The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (1964), [656] Go
• Lawrence Buell, from The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture (1995), [659] Go
• Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., from The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Patricia Nelson Limerick, from “Disorientation and Reorientation: The American Landscape Discovered from the West” in Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West (2000), 665 of 1492 (1972), [661] Go
• Samuel P. Hays in collaboration with Barbara D. Hays, from Beauty, Health, and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955–1985 (1987), [668] Go

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