Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
Stoll traces the origins of nineteenth-century conservation, which grew out of a rich and heated discussion, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, about soil fertility, plant nutrition, and livestock management. More fundamental than any other resource, soil “became the focal point for a conception of nature as strictly limited.” The problem gave rise to a major disagreement about the wisdom of territorial expansion.
Building on Water focusses on the relationship between early modern agriculture and water management in Europe, and the history of Venetian hydraulic management.
This collection of studies provides valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing Latin America.
A collection on the environmental history of the Middle East that covers five broad themes: agriculture and pastoralism; water; nature and culture; marine environments, and environmental monitoring.