Books & Profiles

This illustrated history recounts how, for the past three hundred years, hurricanes have altered lives and landscapes along the Georgia-South Carolina seaboard.

A grippingly perceptive tale of changing social attitudes and scientific practices.

This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa.

An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigates the various approaches and research fields of environmental history.

This volume provides a renewed vision of the issue of collective properties, an issue previously distorted by passions, and now mostly forgotten.

A study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present.

All rights reserved. © 2004 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Auer, Matthew R., ed. Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.

Anderson argues that livestock were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west.

All rights reserved. © 2006 Columbia University Press

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Ferrieres, Madeleine. Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.