Texts marked with (READER) are included in the course reader: 'NORAM4508 Environment, Technology & History' (available at Kopiutsalget, Akademika)
Braudel, Fernand. The Mediterranean, 25-85 (READER)
Crosby, Alfred W.: Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 1993, paper. Cambridge University. 1-69, 132-216, 295-308.
Darwin, Charles: Origin of the Species: By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 1999. Bantam Classic/Mass Market paperback. 80-127.
Emerson, “The Young American” (http://www.rwe.org/works/Natureaddresses5TheYoung_American.htm)
Ferrero, Guglielmo. “The Riddle of America,” The Atlantic, November 1913 (http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/13nov/ferrero.htm)
Gideon, Siegfried. Mechanization Takes Command, 130-208 (READER)
Gutiérrez-Witt & Leonard, “America as a Literary Convention” (http://www.humanities-interactive.org/newworld/factfict/amlit_convention.htm)
Hudson Valley School of Painters (http://www.northnet.org/hildreth/ish_pic.htm)
Jefferson, “Notes on the State of Virginia” (short selection) (http://uoregon.edu/~mjdennis/courses/hst473_queries.htm)
Mars, George Perkins: Man and Nature, ed., David Lowenthal, 2003, paper. University of Washington. xv-xxxviii, 7-52.
Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden, 36-46, 227-242 (READER)
McNeill, William H.: Plagues and Peoples, 1998, paper. Anchor. 37-160, 208-241.
Montesquieu, “Of Laws in Relation to the Nature of the Climate” (http://www.constitution.org/cm/sol_14.htm)
Montaigne, “On Barbarism” (http://eserver.org/philosophy/montaigne-essays.txt)
Mumford, Lewis: Technics and Civilization, 1963, paper. Harvest Books. (9-59, 107-118).
Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind, 67-83 (READER)
Nye, David E. American Technological Sublime, 17-43 (READER)
Turner, F. J. The Significance of the Frontier in American History (http://www.pinzler.com/ushistory/sigfrontsupp.html)
Webb, Walter Prescott: The Great Plains, 1981, paper. University of Nebraska. 3-68, 85-114, 152-170, 385-398, 485-515.
Worster, Donald. The Economy of Nature, 3-25 (READER)
Worster, Donald: Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity & the Growth of the American West, 1992, paper. Oxford University. 129-261.