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From: Philip G Terrie pterrie@bgsu.edu
List Editor: Thomas Wellock <Wellock@CWU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: Query: late 19th-cent resource extraction
Author's Subject: Query: late 19th-cent resource extraction
Date Written: 11/5/2009 6:28 AM >>>
Date Posted: Fri, 05 Nov 2009 10:26:59 -0500

I am looking for a reading assignment for an undergrad class, populated mostly
by non history majors:

The class is on the Adirondacks in American environmental history, and I want
to contextualize the frenzy of Adk logging ca. 1890-1910.  I'd like an article
that's mostly descriptive, with an account of how rapid industrialization
depended on ruthless resource exploitation.  Ideally, it should be an article
accessible on line (via J-Stor or the like), something I can download and post
as a pdf or something for which I can provide a url.  Something from a
non-scholarly journal would probably work fine, so long as I can legally
distribute it.

Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

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