The Earth as Modified by Human Action

About this eBook

Author

Marsh, George P. (George Perkins), 1801-1882

Credits

Produced by Steve Harris, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

GF: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Human ecology, Anthropogeography

Subject

Nature -- Effect of human beings on

Category

Text

eBook-No.

6019

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6019

Release Date

July 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE EARTH AS MODIFIED BY HUMAN ACTION. — PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. — PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION. — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS VOLUME. — TABLE OF CONTENTS — CHAPTER I.
2. 2.THE EARTH AS MODIFIED BY HUMAN ACTION. — CHAPTER 1. — UNCERTAINTY OF OUR HISTORICAL CONCLUSIONS ON ANCIENT CLIMATES. — STABILITY OF NATURE. — FORMATION OF BOGS. — NATURAL CONDITIONS FAVORABLE TO GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGE. — IMPORTANCE OF PHYSICAL CONSERVATION, AND RESTORATION. — PHYSICAL RESTORATION. — CHAPTER II. — MODERN GEOGRAPHY EMBRACES ORGANIC LIFE. — ORIGIN OF DOMESTIC PLANTS. — OBJECTS OF MODERN COMMERCE. — FOREIGN PLANTS, HOW INTRODUCED. — VEGETABLE POWER OF ACCOMMODATION. — AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OF THE UNITED STATES. — USEFUL AMERICAN PLANTS GROWN IN EUROPE. — EXTIRPATION OF VEGETABLES. — ANIMAL LIFE AS A GEOLOGICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL AGENCY. — INFLUENCE OF ANIMAL LIFE ON VEGETATION — ORIGIN AND TRANSFER OF DOMESTIC QUADRUPEDS. — EXTIRPATION OF WILD QUADRUPEDS. — LARGE MARINE ANIMALS RELATIVELY UNIMPORTANT IN GEOGRAPHY. — INTRODUCTION AND BREEDING OF FISH. — INTRODUCTION OF BIRDS. — INJURY TO THE FOREST BY INSECTS. — DESTRUCTION OF INSECTS. — CHAPTER III. — VIII. — IX. — CHAPTER IV. — DRAINING OF THE LAKE OF HAARLEM. — SUBTERRANEAN WATERS. — CHAPTER V. — COAST DUNES. — CHARACTER OF DUNE SAND. — CHAPTER VI.

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