Books & Profiles

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 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.

A collection offering global perspectives on the intersections of mind and environment across a variety of discourses—from history and politics to the visual arts and architecture.

The world is full of environmental injustices and inequalities; yet few European historians have tackled these subjects head on, nor have they explored their relationships with social inequalities.

An environmental history of the Industrial Revolution, as inscribed on the Liri valley in Italy’s Central Apennines.

Explores the conceptualization of environments as landscape, philosophically and historically.

This multi-authored collection examines the complex interrelations between societies in different parts of the world and the soils they relied on from the perspectives of geomorphology, archaeology, pedology, and history.

The author argues that the analysis of historical energy systems can provide an explanation for the basic patterns of different social formations.

Fourteen environmental historians investigate the rhetoric and realities of exotic, introduced, and ‘alien’ species.

Over a decade in the making, the Earth Charter provides a global vision for a sustainable future.