A collection of essays examining the tortured environmental history of Pittsburgh, a region blessed with an abundance of natural resources as well as a history of intensive industrial development.
A collection of essays examining the tortured environmental history of Pittsburgh, a region blessed with an abundance of natural resources as well as a history of intensive industrial development.
The book examines the natural and economic resource competition between Phoenix and Tucson and the other factors contributing to the divergent growth of the two cities.
A memoir of the author’s life and his strong interests in wildlife, conservation, and major environmental organizations.
A biography of the Chicago River.
Examines the weather records of Thomas Thistlewood, a large property and slave-owner in eighteenth-century Jamaica.
Examines the development of woodland ownership in Denmark from the Middle Ages to the first half of the nineteenth century.
This volume traces the perception of the global environmental crisis on the basis of primary sources.
A cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States.
Jon Coleman investigates the sometimes violent and always controversial relationship between the two species.
This illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia-South Carolina seaboard.