American Forests: Nature, Culture, and Politics
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.
This collection of essays looks at the ways tourism affects people and places in the Southwest and at the region’s meaning on the larger stage of national life.
Traces the elm’s transformation from a fast-growing weed into a regional and national icon.
In his work, Francaviglia proposes “to tell the story of how the Great Basin’s environment resonates in the spiritual lives of all its people”.
A cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States.
By looking at works by Native Americans, African Americans, European Americans, and others, and by considering forms of literature beyond the traditional nature essay, Myers expands our conceptions of environmental writing and environmental justice.
Why do people want to eat locally? This essay considers the drive for local food as a consumer movement in the United States, suggesting that we can look at the past to learn valuable lessons for challenges we face today.
This film explores the Occupy protests and similar activist movements and what their vision for the world is.
This film examines political and economic crises and the role of a corporate military-industrial context in undermining democracy, and is narrated by actor Woody Harrelson.
Bathsheba Demuth looks at the value of whales for indigenous peoples around the Bering Strait.