The documents collected in the book reveal the various and sometimes conflicting uses of the term “conservation” and the contested nature of the reforms it described.
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The untold story behind the importation and release of the gypsy moth in North America.
Leading health scholars reveal the impact of globalization on human health, as it is mediated through environmental change.
Richards shows how humans—whether clearing forests or draining wetlands, transporting bacteria, insects, and livestock; hunting species to extinction, or reshaping landscapes—altered the material well-being of the natural world along with their own.
Napier Shelton offers a tour of notable natural sites in Missouri through the eyes of the people who work with them.
On the use, abuse, and regulation of pesticides from World War II until 1970.
Christopher Bosso considers how organizations that once contested the Establishment have become an establishment of their own.
A biography of the Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson.
An original history of “ecological” ideas of the body as it unfolded in California’s Central Valley.
An anthology devoted to the United States’ earliest nature writing.