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.
Books & Profiles
Roundtable Review of The Invention of Ecocide by David Zierler
Roundtable Review of In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers by Mark Carey
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.
Roundtable Review of Fixing the Sky by James R. Fleming
If climate change mitigation through political agreement has no hope of succeeding, does it make sense to tinker with the climate?
Roundtable Review of Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
Why do we continue to talk about the debate over global warming as if it were a scientific controversy?
Roundtable Review of Mosquito Empires by John R. McNeill
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.
Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement
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.
The Third Dimension: A Comparative History of Mountains in the Modern Era
This book considers the variegated world of mountains and their development during the last five hundred years.
A Rugged Nation: Mountains and the Making of Modern Italy
The nationalization of Italian mountains has been a story of military conquest and resistance, ecological and social transformation, expropriating resources and imposing meanings…
Conservation Song: A History of Peasant-State Relations and the Environment in Malawi, 1860–2000
Conservation Song explores ways in which colonial relations shaped meanings and conflicts over environmental control and management in Malawi. By focusing on soil conservation, which required an integrated approach to the use and management of such natural resources as land, water, and forestry, it examines the origins and effects of policies and their legacies in the post-colonial era.