This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa.
Books & Profiles
Environment, Power and Injustice: A South African History
Umwelt-Geschichte: Arbeitsfelder, Forschungsansätze, Perspektiven [Environmental History: Fields, Approaches, Perspectives]
An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigates the various approaches and research fields of environmental history.
Les propriétés collectives face aux attaques libérales (1750–1914). Europe occidentale et Amérique latine [Collective Properties in the Face of Liberal Attacks (1750–1914)]
This volume provides a renewed vision of the issue of collective properties, an issue previously distorted by passions, and now mostly forgotten.
At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America
A study of homesteading in America from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia
Auer, Matthew R., ed. Restoring Cursed Earth: Appraising Environmental Policy Reforms in Eastern Europe and Russia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania's Usambara Mountains
Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape in the Usambara mountains of Tanzania.
Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
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.
Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears
Ferrieres, Madeleine. Sacred Cow, Mad Cow: A History of Food Fears. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good
Is private ownership an inviolate right that individuals can wield as they see fit?
Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classic Texts
The documents collected in the book reveal the various and sometimes conflicting uses of the term “conservation” and the contested nature of the reforms it described.