Bioinvaders
Fourteen environmental historians investigate the rhetoric and realities of exotic, introduced, and ‘alien’ species.
Fourteen environmental historians investigate the rhetoric and realities of exotic, introduced, and ‘alien’ species.
The author argues that the analysis of historical energy systems can provide an explanation for the basic patterns of different social formations.
This multi-authored collection examines the complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology, and history.
Explores the conceptualization of environments as landscape, philosophically and historically.
An environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy’s Central Apennines.
A collection offering global perspectives on the intersections of mind and environment across a variety of discourses—from history and politics to the visual arts and architecture.
Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of such natural resources as land, water, and forestry, it examines the origins and effects of policies and their legacies in the post-colonial era.
This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last five hundred years.
This book investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures interact with and conceptualize their environments, past and present.
This contribution to the literature on the recent environmental history of Britain is an exhaustively detailed study of the interplay between tourism, conservation, and landownership in one of the most popular tourist areas in Scotland.