An interdisciplinary collection of essays that investigate the history of land ownership in the United States, including with reference to related conflicts with environmentalists.
Books & Profiles
Who Owns America? Social Conflict Over Property Rights
Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments: Legacies and Lessons
A collection on the environmental history of the Middle East that covers five broad themes: agriculture and pastoralism; water; nature and culture; marine environments, and environmental monitoring.
Green Versus Gold: Sources in California's Environmental History
Green Versus Gold examines California’s environmental history, ranging from its Native American past to conflicts and movements of recent decades.
I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
Examines the cultural history of English explorations of Earth’s polar regions.
The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945
A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature
A biography of American scientist and popular ecology writer, Rachel Carson.
Building the National Parks: Historic Landscape Design and Construction
A history of constructed and designed landscapes in the United States’ national parks.
Energy and the Making of Modern California
James C. Williams’s history of energy development and use in California.
The Search for the Ultimate Sink: Urban Pollution in Historical Perspective
A collection of essays exploring the production and disposal of wastes in the American city since 1850.
Water: A Natural History
An environmental history of waterways in the United States.