William Cronon

A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative

In the beginning was the story Or rather: many stories, of many places, in many voices, pointing toward many ends.

Uncommon ground : toward reinventing nature

Modern conceptions of nature tend to be flawed because too often they fail to take account of the influence of people. The essays in this text examine the problems that flow from a viewpoint that severs human beings and human activities from their place in nature.

Under an open sky : rethinking America's Western past

The history of the American West is being transformed by exciting new ideas, new questions, new scholarship. For many years this field was dominated by popular images of the lone cowboy and the savage Indian, and by Frederick Jackson Turners concept of the frontier as a steadily advancing source of democracy and social renewal. But now historians and even the merchants of popular culture are reshaping our views of the frontier and the West by taking up a rich array of new subjects, including the stories of diverse peoples as well as the history of the land itself. A new generation of scholars is reformulating the broader questions also: What was the significance of the frontier in American history? What are the bases of western identity? What themes connect the twentieth-century West to its more distant past? The transformation of western history continues to be an open-ended, turbulent process. The original essays in this volume are reports from the frontier of change. In their diverging assumptions and conclusions, they reflect the vitality of this field. They succeed when they make the case for new questions and suggest possible answers. They advocate no single agenda. But taken together they well represent the passion and high craft with which scholars are creating a new western history.

The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era

Foreword by William CrononAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Intersection of Diplomacy and ConservationPART ONE: THE INLAND FISHERIES TREATYA Problem of Scale, 1892-1897The Jordon Rules, 1898-1909The One That Got Away, 1909-1914PART TWO: THE NORTH PACIFIC FUR SEAL CONVENTIONConflict in the Bering Sea, 1886-1899Conciliation and Conservation, 1900-1912PART THREE: THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATYOf Mallards and Men, 1883-1913Coordinating Science, Diplomacy, and Public Relations, 1913-1916Protecting the National Interest, 1916-1920Epilogue: Implications of the Progressive TreatiesNotesBibliographyIndex

Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000

Foreword: Still Searching for Eden at the End of the Oregon Trail by William CrononPrefacePrologue: A Time to RememberI. Postwar Promise1. The Great Hope for the New Order2. Into the Brave New WorldII. Making Agriculture Modern3. Bringing Perfection to the Fields4. The Wonder World of PesticidesIII. Industrial Forestry Management5. Planning and Technical Efficiency in the Forests6. Intensive Forestry and Citizen ActivismIV. Of Rivers and Land7. Richard Neubergers Conservation Politics8. Tom McCall and the Struggle for the Willamette9. Ecologies of Sprawl: The Land-Use NexusEpilogue: The Special PlaceNotesBibliographyIndex