Introduction
Part 1: Aboriginal Peoples and Settlers
1 Encountering a New Land
2 Settling the Land and Transforming the “Wilderness”
Part 2: Industrialism, Reform, and Infrastructure
3 Early Cities and Urban Reform
4 The Conservation Movement
5 Mining Resources
6 Cars, Consumerism, and Suburbs
Part 3: Harnessing Nature, Harming Nature
7 Changing Energy Regimes
8 Water
9 The Contested World of Food and Agriculture
Part 4: The Environmental Era
10 The Environmental Movement and Public Policy
11 Parks and Wildlife
12 Coastal Fisheries
13 The North and Climate Change
Conclusion
Index