{"product_id":"the-greater-plains-brian-frehner-9781496225078","title":"The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region's Environmental Histories","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Greater Plains\u003c\/i\u003e tells a new story of a region, stretching from the state of Texas to the province of Alberta, where the environments are as varied as the myriad ways people have inhabited them. These innovative essays document a complicated history of human interactions with a sometimes plentiful and sometimes foreboding landscape, from the Native Americans who first shaped the prairies with fire to twentieth-century oil regimes whose pipelines linked the region to the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Greater Plains\u003c\/i\u003e moves beyond the narrative of ecological desperation that too often defines the region in scholarly works and in popular imagination. Using the lenses of grasses, animals, water, and energy, the contributors reveal tales of human adaptation through technologies ranging from the travois to bookkeeping systems and hybrid wheat. Transnational in its focus and interdisciplinary in its scholarship, \u003ci\u003eThe Greater Plains\u003c\/i\u003e brings together leading historians, geographers, anthropologists, and archaeologists to chronicle a past rich with paradoxical successes and failures, conflicts and cooperation, but also continual adaptation to the challenging and ever-shifting environmental conditions of the North American heartland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian Frehner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496225074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496225078\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d","brand":"Brian Frehner","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44042537926911,"sku":"9781496225078","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_298c1de4-48eb-4e6d-8462-c4465e06a94a.jpg?v=1684962110","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-greater-plains-brian-frehner-9781496225078","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}