GEOG 339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Binomial Nomenclature, Jevons Paradox, Passenger Pigeon
Document Summary
Early euroamerican understanding of the american landscape change in late 18th and 19th century appreciation of landscape pastoral: Lived place, somewhere between city and wild. Rejection of modernity and ties to civilization civilization destroys happiness and moral integrity. Frontier is critical to u. s. identity and success, similar to wilderness explains america democracy itself. Def. of wilderness: area that occupied less than 1 person/sq mile by 1890, the wilderness no longer existed in the u. s. 19th century is era of great turmoil and unrest in all aspects of society. Political changes profound disagreements internally in u. s. about role of federal government in economy. Jefferson vs. hamilton creation of federal bank admission of new slave states to union. British inclosure acts changing system of land ownership away from commonly held land change in inheritance laws in response to decreasing landholding size originally, eldest son received , the rest was divided among remaining siblings.
