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    William Cronon (born September 11, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an environmental historian and the Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor...
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  • Ecology of New England is a 1983 nonfiction book by historian William Cronon. In this work, Cronon demonstrated the impact on the land of the widely disparate...
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    Religious Quest (2005) excerpt William Cronon, "The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature" in William Cronon, ed., Uncommon Ground: Rethinking...
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  • Fire". AP NEWS. Retrieved 2021-03-10.[dead link] Mitman, Gregg, and WILLIAM CRONON. “EPILOGUE.” Reel Nature: America’s Romance with Wildlife on Film, University...
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    city, and nature) was, in fact, a messy socio-spatial continuum". And William Cronon argues against the idea of wilderness because it "involves a dualistic...
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    operations that lacked economy of scale or quality controls. Historian William Cronon concludes: Because of the Chicago packers, ranchers in Wyoming and feedlot...
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    conservatives Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill and Wang, 1983) Cronon, William, Nature's...
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    wilderness has been criticized by some nature writers. For example, William Cronon writes that what he calls a wilderness ethic or cult may "teach us to...
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    in 1900. It became a venue for many national conventions. Historian William Cronon concludes: Because of the Chicago packers, ranchers in Wyoming and feedlot...
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  • Seminar. Map 4. Albany: New York State Bulletin No. 506, 2005. p. 32. William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England...
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    a cultural construct with colonialist implications as suggested by William Cronon. Since then, readings of environmental history and discourse have become...
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    environmental movement for having romantic idealizations of wilderness. William Cronon writes "wilderness serves as the unexamined foundation on which so many...
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    that these omissions had on minority groups. Environmental historian William Cronon proposed three ways to combat bias and ensure authentic and accurate...
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    Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 78, no. 4 (Summer 1995), pp. 276–293. Cronon, William. "Revisiting the Vanishing Frontier: The Legacy of Frederick Jackson...
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    Abstract. Justice Professional Volume:3 Issue:1 (Spring 1988) Pages:70–93 William., Cronon (1996). Uncommon ground: rethinking the human place in nature. W.W...
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  • (1996), "Are You an Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living?", in William Cronon, (ed.), Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Human Place in Nature, W. W. Norton...
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    William Hardy McNeill (October 31, 1917 – July 8, 2016) was an American historian and author, noted for his argument that contact and exchange among civilizations...
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    benefited enormously, with Kansas City a distant second. Historian William Cronon concludes: Because of the Chicago packers, ranchers in Wyoming and feedlot...
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    1995). online Cronon, William, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (Hill and Wang, 1983) Cronon, William, Nature's Metropolis:...
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  • Roosevelt and William Howard Taft as well as Clara Barton and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Bruce Catton (1899–1978) – American Civil War William Cronon (born 1954)...
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    William Edward Dodd (October 21, 1869 – February 9, 1940) was an American historian, author and diplomat. A liberal Democrat, he served as the United...
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    replenishing soils with manure, and a sequence of events that led to erosion. William Cronon wrote that "...the long-term effect was to put those soils in jeopardy...
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    not observed any damages from demonstrations. On March 21, Professor William Cronon of the University of Wisconsin wrote an op-ed opposing the bill. In...
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  • (1902–1979), Canadian Vincent Cronin (1924–2011), European and art history William Cronon (born 1954), US environmental Pamela Kyle Crossley (born 1955), China...
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  • point, the others being volumes about Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Walt Whitman. That those others all concerned the...
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    and Cattle Ranching in the American West (U of Oklahoma Press, 1997). William Cronon, Nature's metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991) p. 214. R. Douglas...
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    Thatcher Ulrich (2009) Barbara Metcalf (2010) Anthony Grafton (2011) William Cronon (2012) Kenneth Pomeranz (2013) Jan E. Goldstein (2014) Vicki L. Ruiz...
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  • and the Ecology of New England Land and water: hunting and fishing William Cronon 1983 Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900...
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  • Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos (boxed set in 2 volumes) – edited by William Cronon Contains The Immense Journey, The Firmament of Time, The Unexpected...
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    President of the American Historical Association 2011 Succeeded by William Cronon Awards Preceded by James S. Ackerman Balzan Prize 2002 With: Walter...
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