Books & Profiles

This book chapter argues that the actor-network approach is particularly suited for research in environmental history with its long-standing interest in more-than-human agency.

This book chapter provides a transdisciplinary overview of the agents, agencies, and processes of change occurring in the Mozambican coast in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and their connection to international trends and global environmental concerns.

Hsuan Hsu’s Air Conditioning explores questions about culture, ethics, ecology, and social justice raised by the history and uneven distribution of climate controlling technologies.

In a combination of different genres, this book accounts for life and environment along the Delaware River.

This book examines how the unruly Mississippi River and its muddy delta shaped the people, culture, and governance of the region.

Full text of Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands, edited by Rachel Carson Center almunae Milica Prokić and Pavla Šimková,

An edited volume environment and infrastructure in the late middle ages to our days.

A book on the history of repeat photography of glaciers.

Full text of Rachel Carson Center director Christof Mauch’s Paradise Blues: Travels Through American Environmental History.

Full text of Joan Martínez-Alier’s Land, Water, Air and Freedom: The Making of World Movements for Environmental Justice (2023).