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.
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.
The second volume of Robbins’s environmental history of Oregon.
This book shifts through historical material, Salomon de Caus’s writings, and his extant landscape designs to determine what is fact and what is fiction in the life of this polymathic and prolific figure.
A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China’s growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country’s future development.
Driving Germany is an in-depth exploration of the relationship between environmental and trafiic history in Germany, set against the political and ideological background of National Socialism.
The nationalization of Italian mountains has been a story of military conquest and resistance, ecological and social transformation, expropriating resources and imposing meanings…