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Saving the Planet is a history of US conservation and environmental movements in the twentieth century.
This contribution to the literature on the recent environmental history of Britain is an exhaustively detailed study of the interplay between tourism, conservation, and landownership in one of the most popular tourist areas in Scotland.
Gesellschaft und Ernahrung is a lavishly illustrated catalog of an exhibition on the history of food that ran at the Food Museum in Vevey, Switzerland, in 2000.
This book discusses Marx’s ecological principles and materialistic views that can be traced back to mid-nineteenth-century social and scientific thought.
Horizontal Yellow is a book about history and nature and humankind’s impact on nature in the Near Southwest, the region of yellowed grass stretching from the Rocky Mountains’ eastern range to Louisiana’s bayou country, and from southern Kansas to the Gulf Coast.
Imperfect Balance offers a balance of accessible writing and scholarly approaches to understanding the Western Hemisphere’s incredibly diverse landscapes, the human forces that shaped them, and the impact of this interaction on sustained human settlement.
Essays from the New Mexico Environmental Symposium held in Albuquerque in April 1996 discuss the ways in which concepts of human nature shape our understandings of environmental issues and direct our environmental politics.
A review of a collection of essays on the history and adventure of American exploration with several references to sophisticated analyses of trigonometric surveys, the science of empire building, and natural history exchange networks.
Brian Black tells the cultural and environmental history of Oil Creek Valley in Pennsylvania, and investigates the relations among oil production, industrialization, and local residents.
This graphic novel tells the story of a town shaped by asbestos mining.