Landscapes
Explores the conceptualization of environments as landscape, philosophically and historically.
Explores the conceptualization of environments as landscape, philosophically and historically.
This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last five hundred years.
A history of constructed and designed landscapes in the United States’ national parks.
Taking an environmental history perspective of the nothwestern plains, this book represents an excellent example of how to tie the human experience to the limits and opportunities presented by environment.
Henry Clifford Darby (Sir Clifford in his later years) was—and arguably remains—Britain’s most well known historical geographer. The Relations of History and Geography consists of a dozen chapters, arranged as three sets of four essays that focus on England, France, and America. At the heart of this book lies a window onto Darby’s views of historical geography, as a field of inquiry, in the three realms over which he cast his gaze.
A “deep ecology” of the Middle Ages.
This book examines the various practices—social, discursive, and political—through which Canada’s West Coast forests have been given meaning and made the site of intense political and ideological struggle.
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of these authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them.
Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries between water and land, the ways they have altered these places, and the often unintended results.
Geography and History is the first book for more than a century to examine comprehensively the interdependence of the two disciplines.