Books & Profiles

This book investigates how indigenous peoples from various cultures interact with and conceptualize their environments, past and present.

In Toxic Bodies Langston tells us of the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), a hormone disruptor that doctors prescribed to pregnant women for decades in the mid-twentieth century.

In this book David Zierler tries to explain the success of the campaign against herbicidal warfare that followed the start of Operation Ranch Hand in 1961.

In this book Mark Carey identifies glacial retreat as a historical reality that has played a substantial role in the political, economic, and social dramas of South America.

If climate change mitigation through political agreement has no hope of succeeding, does it make sense to tinker with the climate?

Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?

Mosquito Empires, spanning nearly three centuries and the histories of many peoples, nations, and empires in the American tropical world, places considerable responsibility upon mosquitoes for the course of events in this region.

For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?

This book links the environmental movement that emerged in the United States during the 1960s to earlier progressive movements and considers the importance of race, ethnicity, class, and gender issues for the history and evolution of environmentalism.

This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last five hundred years.