Donald Worster
Donald Worster is a historian at the University of Kansas Department of History.
Worster received a Bachelor of Arts in 1963 and a Master of Arts in 1964 from the University of Kansas. He continued his education at Yale University, earning an M.Phil. in 1970 and a PhD. in 1971. He is considered one of the founders of, and leading figures in, the field of environmental history.
Bibliography
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- An Unsettled Country: Changing Landscapes of the American West (1994) ISBN 0-8263-1481-3
- The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination (1993) ISBN 0-19-507624-9
- Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological Ideas (1977) ISBN 0-87156-197-2
- Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s (1979) ISBN 0-19-502550-4
Quotes
"Whatever terrain the environmental historian chooses to investigate, he has to address the age-old predicament of how humankind can feed itself without degrading the primal source of life. Today as ever, that problem is the fundamental challenge in human ecology, and meeting it will require knowing the earth well--knowing its history and knowing its limits." [1]
External links
- University of Kansas faculty page - Worster's biography
1
- ^ "Tranformations of the Earth: toward an Agroecological Perspective in History," Journal of American History 76:4 (March 1990): 1106. [links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723(199003)76%3A4%3C1087%3ATOTETA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6]