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.
An interdisciplinary explanation of why Europeans and people of European descent have come to control so much of the world’s wealth.
Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.
An environmental history of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil from pre-modern times to the late twentieth century.
In this book, David Biggs explores the actual uses of land and water in Vietnam through its troubled history.
Anderson argues that livestock were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west.
This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa.
Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.
A cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States.
Life as a Hunt chronicles the history of the Valley Bisa people, their evolving landscapes and knowledge, and the ‘conservation battlefield’ their homeland has become.