A cultural history of the Grand Canyon that investigates the intersections of culture, nature, and landscape.
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An environmental and social history of the Salton Sea, a saline lake in southern California.
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
An investigation into the introduction of European diseases to native peoples on the Pacific Northwest coast (North America).
Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.
A collection of essays that, as a whole, considers strong private property rights as crucial for environmental protection.
An investigation, based on both fieldwork and historical sources, of changing land use practices in the Amazonian floodplain forest.
An account of how water pollution control policy emerged during the seminal decades of environmental activism, with reference to the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world: the Great Lakes.
An interdisciplinary explanation of why Europeans and people of European descent have come to control so much of the world’s wealth.
How a site in San Francisco that had been a military base for much of its modern history became a unique, urban national park.