About this collection

The Books & Profiles collection contains full-text books, excerpts, profiles, and reviews of books on the human-environment relationship. The Rachel Carson Center partners with Berghahn Books to produce the environmental book series The Environment in History: International Perspectives and with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht on the German language Umwelt und Gesellschaft. The collection profiles books on the human-environment relationship from other academic publishers such as White Horse Press, University of Calgary Press, Open Humanities Press, and University of Pittsburgh Press. It also features dialogues between environmental authors and critics through the H-Environment Roundtable Reviews

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The Life, Extinction, and Rebreeding of Quagga Zebras: Significance for Conservation
Heywood, Peter
05/2022
The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology
Foster, John Bellamy
20/04/2022
Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha
Jacobs, Robert A.
29/03/2022
Woodland Imagery in Northern Art, c. 1500–1800
van Hogendorp Prosperetti, Leopoldine
01/03/2022
“The ‘Truth about Ebola’: Insecure Epistemologies in Post-Outbreak Forest Guinea”
Roth, Emmanuelle
11/02/2022
Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China
Gao, Yan
06/01/2022
Hydroelektrische Projektionen: Eine Emotionsgeschichte der Wasserkraft im Industriefilm
Zimmer, Fabian
2022
Policy and Practice in Rural Tanzania: Grazing, Fishing and Farming at the Local-Global Interface
Allegretti, Antonio
2022
“Planetary Environing: The Biosphere and the Earth System”
Rispoli, Giulia
2022
Mosquitopia: The Place of Pests in a Healthy World
Hall, Marcus, and Dan Tamïr (eds.)
2022
Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook
Kupper, Patrick, and Anna-Katharina Wöbse (eds.)
31/12/2021
Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities
Villanueva-Romero, Diana, Lorraine Kerslake, and Carmen Flys-Junquera
09/12/2021
Taming Fruit: How Orchards Have Transformed the Land, Offered Sanctuary, and Inspired Creativity
Brunner, Bernd
11/2021
The Swamp of East Naples: Environmental History of an Unruly Suburb
Caruso, Valerio
15/09/2021
Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire
Siebert, Martina, Kai Jun Chen, and Dorothy Ko (eds.)
12/09/2021