Books & Profiles

Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The Meuse Region, 1250–1850 by Sander Govaerts is available to download in its entirety.

Excerpt from Thoreau’s Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism, a new interpretation of Thoreau’s Walden.

Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes by Heide Estes is a part of the series “Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures,” published by Amsterdam University Press.

Excerpt from The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology by John Bellamy Foster.

Making the Palace Machine Work: Mobilizing People, Objects, and Nature in the Qing Empire, edited by Martina Martina, Kai Jun Chen, and Dorothy Ko, is available to download in its entirety.

Encountering Water in Early Modern Europe and Beyond by Lindsay Starkey is a part of the series “Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures,” published by Amsterdam University Press.

Old English Ecotheology by Courtney Barajas is a part of the series “Environmental Humanities in Pre-Modern Cultures,” published by Amsterdam University Press.

Excerpt from Woodland Imagery in Northern Art, c. 1500–1800 by Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti.

Excerpts from the book Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China by former RCC fellow Yan Gao.

Excerpts from the book Imaginative Ecologies, including an interview with Christof Mauch.