This collection of essays looks at the ways tourism affects people and places in the Southwest and at the region’s meaning on the larger stage of national life.
Books & Profiles
The Culture of Tourism, The Tourism of Culture: Selling the Past to the Present in the American Southwest
Frigid Embrace: Politics, Economics, and Environment in Alaska
In Frigid Embrace, Stephen Haycox explores how the drive to extract natural resources has shaped Alaskans’ understanding of nature and their relationships with the region’s Native people.
Man and Nature; or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action
In linking culture with nature, science with history, Man and Nature was the most influential text of its time next to Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
In the Absence of Predators: Conservation and Controversy on the Kaibab Plateau
In the first comprehensive account of the Kaibab deer controversy, Christian C. Young describes the interactions, rivalries, and conflicts between state and federal agencies, scientists, nature lovers, conservationists, and hunters.
Nontimber Forest Products in the United States
This book provides the first comprehensive examination of nontimber forest products (NTFPs) in the United States, illustrating their diverse importance, describing the people who harvest them, and outlining the steps that are being taken to ensure access to them.
Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century
Hal Rothman’s Neon Metropolis is a colorful and absorbing account of Las Vegas’s rise from the desert landscape of the American West to the cutting edge of metropolitan growth and development.
Warm Sands: Uranium Mill Tailings Policy in the Atomic West
Warm Sands gives an institutional analysis of how the debates over legal and political authority, scientific expertise, and public health and safety both delayed and shaped the formation of mill tailings policy in the United States.
Ethnographies of Conservation: Environmentalism and the Distribution of Privilege
Through a series of ethnographic studies that range from Papua New Guinea to Siberia, Brazil to Namibia, Ethnographies of Conservation argues that the problem is not the disappearance of “pristine nature” or even the land-use practices of uneducated people. Rather, critical attention would be better turned on discourses of “primitiveness” and “pristine nature,” so prevalent within conservation ideology.
Global Environmental Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: Resources, Consumption, and Sustainable Solutions
In five major sections, this edited collection investigates the interaction of population growth, consumption, and environment; the emerging crisis in freshwater around the globe; global climate and atmosphere (including global warming); biodiversity loss; and the concept of sustainable development using natural resources to place future human development on a sustainable path.
The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History
The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History is a useful reference book for high school or college libraries.