To Pass On a Good Earth
Subtitle: The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Jun 24, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780813935669
Description: This Missouri-born son of German immigrants contributed to many fields, with a versatility rare in his time and virtually unknown today. Sauer explored plant and animal domestication, the entry of Native Americans into the continent, their transformation of the land into prairies and cultivated fields, and subsequent European enterprise that fueled prosperity but also triggered environmental degradation and the loss of cultural diversity. Providing profound and invaluable insights into the human occupance, cultivation--and often ruination--of the earth, Sauer revolutionized our understanding of the impact of European conquest of the New World.
Notes: Source title: To Pass On a Good Earth: The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer