"Historical and Applied Perspectives on Prehistoric Land Use in Eastern North America"
Archaeological evidence demonstrates that prehistoric human activities caused significant environmental alteration in many parts of the region…
Archaeological evidence demonstrates that prehistoric human activities caused significant environmental alteration in many parts of the region…
A review of a collection of essays on the history and adventure of American exploration with several references to sophisticated analyses of trigonometric surveys, the science of empire building, and natural history exchange networks.
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.
The Columbia Guide to American Environmental History is a useful reference book for high school or college libraries.
US history from an environmental perspective.
Garth Lenz has played a major part in the fight against Alberta Tar Sands Mining through his photojournalism.
In five sharply drawn chapters, Flight Maps charts the ways in which Americans have historically made connections—and missed connections—with nature.
Managing the Unknown offers essays that show that deficient knowledge is a far more pervasive challenge in resource history than conventional readings suggest. Furthermore, environmental ignorance does not inevitably shrink with the march of scientific progress. This volume combines insights from different continents as well as the seas in between and thus sketches outlines of an emerging global resource history.
This article analyses Thoreau’s thoughts on health based on his writings, emphasising some features that fit well with contemporary debates in the philosophy of medicine.
This article examines the development of North American environmental history as a field on the edges of the historical profession to an increasing application of environmental history to the central events of mainstream North American history.