A study of environmentalism in post-World War II United States.
Books & Profiles
The Greening of a Nation? Environmentalism in the United States Since 1945
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.
Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century
Mark Dowie’s provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement.
Mesopotamian Civilization: The Material Foundations
Presents Mesopotamian civilization “from the ground up,” including with reference to a range of climatic and environmental factors.
Roundtable Review of Evolutionary History by Edmund Russell
Russell employs the notion of the coevolution of plants, animals, and microorganisms to explain the causes and consequences of a broad range of events.
Changing Deserts: Integrating People and Their Environment
This book draws on the diversity of papers on deserts and drylands presented at the first Oxford Interdisciplinary Deserts Conference in March 2010.