Us Environmental History

Reducere. In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, wat...

DescriptionWhen Dave Foreman woke up staring down the gun barrels of FBI agents, he had traveled a long and winding road from Washington, D.C. lobb...

In vividly told sketches of exploration, naval officers, war, and, most significantly, the ocean environment, Jason Smith draws together insights f...

DescriptionIn an era when many businesses have come under scrutiny for their environmental impact, the film industry has for the most part escaped ...

"The gripping story of the most important environmental law case ever decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Richard Lazarus's compelling narrative is ...

Reducere. This book on Universal Ideology is the second in a trilogy on History, Ideology and Revolution. The first book, in 5 volumes, traces the history of...

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...

Reducere. In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, this book brings together leading scholars and EPA...

Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inha...

Reducere. Amid the mass protests of the 1960s, another, less heralded political force arose: public interest progressivism. Led by activists like Ralph Nader...

After the first Euro-American settlers arrived in Seattle in the 1850s, the surrounding old-growth forests were rapidly harvested for lumber, causi...

After the first Euro-American settlers arrived in Seattle in the 1850s, the surrounding old-growth forests were rapidly harvested for lumber, causi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history ...

DescriptionThe second edition of this comprehensive study of recent Japanese history now includes the author's expert assessment of the effects of ...

Reducere. An environmental engineer turned ecology writer relates the history of our waterways and her own growing understanding of why our waterways continu...

Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncove...

Reducere. In 1958, Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb, unveiled his plan to detonate six nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast to create a new harbor. However...

Reducere. This concise, accessible introduction to the history of oil tells the story of how petroleum has shaped human life since it was first discovered oo...

The problem is that we haven't learned to live responsibly in nature. The environmentalist aim of legislating humans out of the wilderness is no so...

In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ec...

Reducere. In Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American e...

Reducere. In Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American e...

Reducere. John Seibert Farnsworth's delightfuleld notes are not only about nature, but from nature as well. In Nature beyond Solitude, Farnsworth lets us pee...

This ambitious volume paints a rich picture of the tools and techniques of printing, publishing, and reading that shaped the ideas and practices th...

Environmental Missions defines an emerging category in missions, one that takes seriously both the mandate to evangelize the world and the responsi...

The relationship between history and fiction has always been a controversial one. Can we ever know that a historical narrative is giving us a true ...

In this warm, engaging look at the life of a great First Lady, Kathi Appelt tells the story behind Lady Bird Johnson's environmental vision. Joy Fi...

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescales of our p...

Laura J. Martin examines ecological restoration's long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted vexing philosophical questio...

For nearly 150 years living in a house in the country has been what many of us aspire to. This book explores how this idea was imported from the US...

Reducere. The conventional history of animals could be more accurately described asthe history of human ideas about animals. Only in the last few decades hav...

Offers the first comprehensive history of the period when the US created the legislative, legal, and administrative structures for environmental pr...

Reducere. "Hogan remains awed and humble in this sweetly embracing, plangent book of grateful, sorrowful, tender poems wed to the scarred body and ravaged Ea...

Global environmental change, argues Michel Serres, has forced us to reconsider our relationship to nature. In this translation of his influential 1...

Reducere. With armed conflict in the Persian Gulf now upon us, Harvard archaeologist Steven LeBlanc takes a long-term view of the nature and roots of war, pr...

Description"Through a narrative that roams in unexpected directions through surprising details and history, then periodically grounds itself by loo...

Reducere. Theodore Roosevelt's writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history--not even Jefferson...

Reducere. George Washington and his Continental Army braving the frigid winter at Valley Forge is an iconic image in the popular history of the American Revo...

DescriptionIt is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world--a simple and harmonious, isolated utopia. B...

Reducere. In a powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the U.S. Constitution's roots in int...

Reducere. Drawing from diary entries and work logs, official accounts, memoirs, personal reminiscences, and hundreds of photographs and reproductions, Jack R...

Republished as part of Amistad's Literary Revival Program, the groundbreaking, bestselling look at history from the perspective of African American...

DescriptionLiz Skilton's innovative study tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wid...

DescriptionMuch of human experience can be distilled to saltwater: tears, sweat, and an enduring connection to the sea. In Vast Expanses, Helen M. ...

From large-scale cattle farming to water pollution, meat-- more than any other food--has had an enormous impact on our environment. Historically, A...

DescriptionFrom the famous strike of 1892, through the century-long fight for a union and union democracy, Homestead Steel Mill--the Final Ten Year...

DescriptionWhy an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescal...

DescriptionAll the pictures in this collection have been celebrated in the past decades by the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition--the w...

Reducere. An ambitious and shocking exposé of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early ...

Reducere. 28 projects seamlessly merge stitching, sustainability, and resourcefulness with simple, clean designAdvancements in technology have increased the ...

Reducere. Lives of Weeds explores the tangled history of weeds and their relationship to humans. Through eight interwoven stories, John Cardina offers a fres...

Reducere. Colorado Book AwardTracing the origins and growth of the Denver Water Department, this study of water and its unique role and history in the West, ...

Reducere. For much of the twentieth century, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officials recognized that the US-Mexico border region was different...

From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracyFor decades, ra...

DescriptionA global tour of energy--the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat. Energy is humanity's single most important reso...

DescriptionA New Map of Wonders charts a course through the realm of the fascinating and awe-inspiring.With the curiosity and enthusiasm of a great...

Since the dawn of human civilization, forests have provided us with food, resources, and energy. The history of human development is also one of fo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Peter J. BowlerThis authoritative volume chronicles humanity's long quest to understand its own origins. Peter J. Bowler br...

DescriptionSpace: it's everywhere, all around, a given. It's abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes t...

Reducere. Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize A fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology Twenty years ...

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history ...

Exploring water's essential role in healing the body and calming the mind. Water is the life source to human existence and to the world around us; ...

Reducere. Barbara Hurd's Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book de...

Reducere. Rising at 11, 750 feet in the Sangre de Cristo range and snaking 926 miles through New Mexico and Texas to the Rio Grande, the Pecos River is one o...

Reducere. Part historical narrative, part travelogue, and part environmental plea, Selling Your Father's Bones recounts one of the most astonishing journeys ...

Reducere. Historic, intriguing, and important in so many ways, the Obama presidency will be studied by scholars and students for years to come. With the rise...

"In The Lowering Days Gregory Brown gives us a lush, almost mythic portrait of a very specific place and time that feels all the more universal for...

While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of t...

Reducere. As human populations inhabiting cities have grown dramatically, we have lost the ability to understand and even to see the natural world around us....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Diana Beresford-KroegerA pioneering scientist writes of the benefits of forest bathing and the fascinating ecological and p...