Lecture Notes

 

Crossroads of Earth Resources and Society

Earth & Planetary Science 170AC  Letters & Science170AC (American Cultures)

 

George Brimhall

University of California, Berkeley

Department of Earth and Planetary Science

 

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 brimhall@berkeley.edu

 

                        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-14: Nuclear Fuels                                                                                                    L-14.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