Lecture Notes
Crossroads of Earth Resources and Society
Earth & Planetary Science 170AC Letters & Science170AC (American Cultures)
George Brimhall
Department of Earth and Planetary Science
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Brimhall at
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Visual Files
Lecture Voice Files Discussion Topics
L-1: Road
map of the class L-1.mp3
L-2:
The Great Basin during the Holocene and Peopling the Land L-2.mp3
L-3: The Arid West: A country of Illusion L-3.mp3
L-4:
On Some American Indian World Views L-4.mp3
L-5:
Winning the West and Manifest Destiny L-5.mp3
L-6:
The California Gold Rush, Geological Basis &Cultural Impact L-6.mp3
Healthcare
L-7:
Chinese in the Gold Rush L-7.mp3 Regent’s Impact
L-8:
Misue of the Land- Japanese Internment Camps L-8.mp3 Value of Seeing Our Past
L-9:
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance L-9.mp3
L-10: Impact of the South Dakota Gold Rush on the
Plains Indians L-10.mp3
L-11:
Role of
government in land management L-11.mp3
L-12: Western Scientific Method L-12.mp3
L-13:
The West and Renewable Resources L-13.mp3
L-15:
How to Conduct a Research Project L-15.mp3
L-16:
Generational Perspective on Change L-16.mp3
L-17:
Desertification, Dust Bowl and Great Depression L-17.mp3
L-18:
Conservatism in the West L-18.mp3
L-19:
Corporations and Earth Resources L-19.mp3
L-20:
Crisis as a catalyst of change to a “free market,” Pinochet’s
Chile L-20.mp3
L-21:
Current
state of recession and a possible Post American World? L-21.mp3
L-22: Discussion of Vision Quest talks,
Course Summary L-22.mp3