Content Index

An analysis of the challenges faced by grassroots campaigns in the United States, and the corporations they oppose.

An account of post-World War II conflicts, prompted by the arrival of two major timber companies in Earth’s largest coastal temperate rainforest: Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska.

Experts in history, history of science, archaeology, geography, and environmental studies examine the history of the region.

A cultural history of the Grand Canyon that investigates the intersections of culture, nature, and landscape.

An environmental and social history of the Salton Sea, a saline lake in southern California.

An edited collection investigating the history of forestry in the United States from the nineteenth century onward.

An investigation into the introduction of European diseases to native peoples on the Pacific Northwest coast (North America).

Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.

A collection of essays that, as a whole, considers strong private property rights as crucial for environmental protection.

An investigation, based on both fieldwork and historical sources, of changing land use practices in the Amazonian floodplain forest.