

Book profile for Provincialising Nature: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Politics of the Environment in Latin America by Michela Coletta and Malayna Raftopoulos.
Excerpt from The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s–1930s by former Rachel Carson Center fellow David Moon.
Extract from Nina Munteanu’s Water is…—a book on the meaning of water.
Excerpt from the book American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science by Megan Raby.
How do national parks operate? In Nationalparks von Nord bis Süd, Olaf Kaltmeier explores this question by looking at the park politics of Argentina.
Early Modern Écologies is the first collective volume to offer perspectives on the relationship between contemporary ecological thought and early modern French literature.
Kate Rigby examines a variety of past disasters, from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the mega-hurricanes of the twenty-first century, revealing the dynamic interaction of diverse human and nonhuman factors in their causation, unfolding, and aftermath. Focusing on the link between the ways disasters are framed by the stories told about them and how people tend to respond to them in practice, Rigby also shows how works of narrative fiction invite ethical reflection on human relations with one another, with our often unruly earthly environs, and with other species in the face of eco-catastrophe.
Astrid M. Eckert’s West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of Cold War Germany and the German reunification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945.
Drawing on Continental theory and various cultural objects, On an Ungrounded Earth constructs an eclectic geosophy describing Earth as a dynamic engine materially invading and upsetting our attempts to reduce it to merely the ground beneath our feet.