In this book there are three key turning points in U.S. ecological history: the entrance of Europeans on American shoreline, Jefferson's acceptance of the Cartesian network as the reason by which the United States would be established, and the "increase of consumerism in the belatedly nineteenth century". He disputes that "the conversion of nature into a product was the most significant single force after these shifts". In accepting an explicitly thesis-driven loom, Steinberg supplies a practical pedagogical instrument. All through the term, we revisited ...