The Study On The New Western History In The United States From The Ecological Perspective

The new western history is an important field of American history,Turner put forwarded the "frontier thesis" is regarded as the symbol of the creation of the study of western history in the United States.In the 1930 s and 1940 s,American historians questioned the vague concept of the frontier in Turner's "frontier thesis ",and the perspective that democracy originated from the forest,which triggered to a round of revision movement of traditional history.After the great plains sandstorms,world war II,shortage of resources and deterioration of the ecological environment,under the impetus of a new generation of historians,american historians broke the traditional view of western history with emphasis on political history,economic history and regional determinism,and opened up new perspectives such as environmental history,racial history,women's history,comprehensive history,and constantly improved the research scope of western history in terms of class,gender and human-terrestrial relations,and formed a new history of the times with distinctive features,more attention to nature and the relation between people and nature.In the early 1960 s,with the help of the development of new social history and ecology,the new western history provided a new perspective and theoretical method for the environmental history and the new western history.Historians of the new west emphasize that the west is placed in a part of the world to understand the relation between man and nature in depth from the perspective of integrity,and to affirm the right of nature and the non-industrial value of nature from the perspective of ecological vision.In the process of transforming nature,the land problem brought by single agricultural planting gave birth to the moral view of agricultural ecology and sustainable "agricultural ecology" farming method.The unequal distribution of wealth and space has led to a dispute among interest groups over the right to dominate nature Seized,triggered resource protectionism and natural protectionism and environmental justice movement and othersocial activities.Ecological change affects the way of life and the concept of ecological environmental protection,and the change of human-land relation is closely related to American culture.New Western historians and environmental historians attach importance to the important role of the western United States and ecological changes in the relation between posterity and ecology,criticize the dual opposition between man and nature under the influence of capitalist culture,call for the restoration of the status of commercialized nature,and analyze whether science and technology can solve environmental problems for a long time under the view of materialistic world dominated by capitalist culture.At the same time,the west is regarded as the laboratory of the world's ecological progress,which is built between the west and the world ecological relation bridge.