An Environmental History of Russia, Paperback - Paul Josephson

The former Soviet empire spanned eleven time zones and contained half the world's forests; vast deposits of oil, gas, and coal; various ores; major...

An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome - Lukas Thommen

Reducere. As the very first book of its kind, An Environmental History of Medieval Europe provides a highly original survey of medieval relations with the na...

Reducere. DescriptionWestern Oregon's Willamette Basin, once a vast wilderness, became a thriving community almost overnight. When Oregon territory was opene...

Reducere. A concise history of Russia from its beginnings in Kiev Rus through to the twenty-first century.

DescriptionRussia has recently marked one hundred years since the 1917 Russian Revolution and the overthrow of the Romanov Dynasty. Seventy-four ye...

Publisher: Ebury PublishingAuthor(s): Mark GaleottiNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 126 x 197 x 21Cover type: Paperback / soft...

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Reducere. A corrective to the contemporary idea that Buddhism has always been an environmentally friendly religionIn the current popular imagination, Buddhis...

Reducere. This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early ('Kievan') Rus' to the start of Peter the Great's reign in 1689. ...

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689-1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mark FiegeForeword by: William CrononIn the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes t...

Reducere. From the arrival of Henry Hudson's Half Moon in the estuarial waters of what would come to be called New York Harbor to the 2006 agreement that lai...

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

DescriptionPresented here is the final and most coherent section of a sweeping classic work in environmental history, The Unending Frontier. The Wo...

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformation...

Reducere. How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape in the South and the farming economy dependent ...

The Earth has entered a new age--the Anthropocene--in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth centu...

Reducere. From the outset, society in Japan has been shaped by its environmental context. The lush green mountainous archipelago of today supports a populati...

This book examines ecology and culture in the Carpathian Mountains, with a focus on Ukraine's Galician Hutsul region from 1848 to 1939.Publisher: L...

Reducere. For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise an...

Reducere. Pope Pius XI wrote as follows in the Encyclical Letter, Divini Redemptoris: "For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the wannest pate...

"The irresistible rise and fall of the world's favourite farm animal"--

Reducere. "Impressive."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDSpanning 1800 years of Russia's history, people, poltics, and culture, Edward Rurtherford, author of the...

Reducere. "Once a Grand Duke" is a 1931 work by former Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia (1866 - 1933), a dynast of the Russian Empire, author, explorer,...

Reducere. The Hermitage Effect tells the tale of how Bill Browder went from being Putin's biggest cheerleader to Browder claiming he was Vladimir Putin's num...

Reducere. Far away from the trendy cafes, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.Midnight in Siberia chr...

Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world a...

Reducere. One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. Bu...

Written by NPR's former Moscow bureau chief, Midnight in Siberia captures an overlooked, idiosyncratic Russia in the age of Putin.

Reducere. Supplying water to millions is not simply an engineering and logistical challenge. As David Soll shows in his finely observed history of the nation...

Reducere. In this revised and expanded edition of Ancient Rome, author Paul A. Zoch presents the history and mythology of Rome, from its legendary progenitor...

From the first Slavic migrations to the Romanovs' rise to the Putin era, Russia has endured for centuries as a nation whose sheer size and diversit...

Reducere. Rights of Nature Rights of Nature Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental Ethics a History of Environmental ...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Keith O'BrienNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 243 x 43Cover type: HardbackRede...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Tantoh Nforba was a child, his fellow students mocked him for his interest in gardening. Today he's an environmental hero, bringing...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 454Collection: Rewriting HistoriesPublication date: 2012Dimensions: 158 x 229 x 25Cover type: Paper...

Framing hygiene within the project of national reconstruction after World War I, The Hygienic Apparatus explores cinema's material contexts alongsi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Velayutham (Jamia Millia Islamia, India) SaravananNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 20...

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Red to Green is an organizational analysis of popular environmental mobilization that addresses the continuing role of the Soviet legacy, the influ...

Reducere. This LGBTQ history of Boston and Provincetown begins with the coming of Europeans to Massachusetts in 1620 and ends with the victory over the refer...

The third volume of The Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Russia and th...

Reducere. This collection contains the complete poetic works of Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was among the first African Americans to gain wide renown for liter...

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Reducere. DescriptionLouise Bryant (December 5, 1885 - January 6, 1936) was an American journalist and writer. She was best known for her Marxist and anarchi...

Reducere. "This collection provides a powerful and sophisticated analysis of how environmental movements influence politics in Asia, and how politics influen...