Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West
Rothman considers how the negative consequences of tourism development in the American West potentially outweigh the economic prosperity it brings to communities.
Rothman considers how the negative consequences of tourism development in the American West potentially outweigh the economic prosperity it brings to communities.
A critique of environmental justice movements in the United States.
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
An analysis of the challenges faced by grassroots campaigns in the United States, and the corporations they oppose.
An account of how national parks developed into one of the most important arenas of contention between native peoples and non-Indians in the twentieth century.
An overview of environmental affairs in the United States, from the 1940s onward.
Thomas R. Dunlap discusses the development of birding and its long-term public influence in the USA through the history of field guides.
In an era when federal ownership and control of natural resources is under suspicion, conservation trusts have emerged into the policy limelight after more than a century in the shadows. This book asks whether conservation trusts can live up to their promise as an efficient and responsive environmental protection policy.
Chasing the Glitter tells the story of the men, mills, and machines that teased precious metals from the reluctant ores of the Black Hills of South Dakota.
Hal Rothman’s Neon Metropolis is a colorful and absorbing account of Las Vegas’s rise from the desert landscape of the American West to the cutting edge of metropolitan growth and development.