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The Earth as Transformed by Human Action is the culmination of a mammoth undertaking involving the examination of the toll our continual strides forward, technical and social, take on our world. The purpose of such a study is to document the changes in the biosphere that have taken place over the last 300 years, to contrast global patterns of change to those appearing on a regional level, and to explain the major human forces that have driven these changes. The first section deals strictly with the major human forces of the past 300 years and the second is a detailed account of the transformations of the global environment wrought by human action. The final section examines a range of perspectives and theories that purport to explain human actions with regard to the biosphere.
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'A Literary & Historical Atlas of America' by J. G. Bartholomew is a volume of work that portrays the vast growth of the United States, as well as its northern and southern neighbors, through a series of small atlases. These maps are meant to knit up geographical and historical knowledge with the facts of commerce and the literary record of each land or region. The volume traces the development of the United States, from the most remarkable parts of the New England of the Pilgrim Fathers to the territories of the old American-Indian nations.