A monograph on the history of sacred mountains on a global scale since 1500.
Books & Profiles
Mount Sacred: A Brief Global History of Holy Mountains since 1500
The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable
Book excerpt from former Rachel Carson Center fellow Alan MacEachern’s The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable. Learn about how Prince Edward Island in Canada tackled the oil crisis of the 1970s by investing in renewable resources.
The Return of Malthus: Environmentalism and Post-war Population–Resource Crises
A monograph on the postwar fear of scarcity and the influence of “neo-Malthusians.”
The Making of Modern Agriculture
A short excerpt from The Making of Modern Agriculture: Nelson Rockefeller’s American International Association (AIA) in Latin America (1946–1968), a book by Claiton Marcio da Silva published in 2023.
Anthropocene Days
A book by John Dargavel on how humans experience the Anthropocene in everyday life.
Conversations on Empathy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imagination and Radical Othering
Full volume of Conversations on Empathy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Imagination and Radical Othering edited by Francesca Mezzenzana and Daniela Peluso.
Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty
A book by Darrel Moellendorfs on climate change and poverty as two global phenomena that call for political action and radical hope.
Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha
A book by Robert A. Jacobs on the meaning, costs, and legacies of our embrace of nuclear weapons and technologies.
Dispatches from the South China Sea Navigating to Common Ground
A book by James Borton on overfishing, illegal and unregulated fishing, coral reef destruction and reclamations, and, eventually, on ways of preserving our oceans.
Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History
Full volume of Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History edited by Jennifer Bonnel and Sean Kheraj.