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Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature
This book discusses Marx’s ecological principles and materialistic views that can be traced back to mid-nineteenth-century social and scientific thought.
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Gesellschaft und Ernährung um 1000: Eine Archäologie des Essens
Gesellschaft und Ernahrung is a lavishly illustrated catalog of an exhibition on the history of food that ran at the Food Museum in Vevey, Switzerland, in 2000.
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Contested Mountains: Nature, Development and Environment in the Cairngorms Region of Scotland, 1880–1980
This contribution to the literature on the recent environmental history of Britain is an exhaustively detailed study of the interplay between tourism, conservation, and landownership in one of the most popular tourist areas in Scotland.
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Saving the Planet: The American Response to the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Saving the Planet is a history of US conservation and environmental movements in the twentieth century.
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Enclosure, Environment and Landscape in Southern England
This book engages debates on the timing and location of the agricultural revolution by focusing on the process of enclosure in the southern English counties of Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex, and Wiltshire.
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Rising Waters: Global Warming and the Fate of the Pacific Islands
This documentary approaches global warming with relation to the human and cultural dimension in several Pacific inslands.
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Il lago e la comunità: Storia di Bientina un "castello" di pescatori nella Toscana moderna
Andrea Zagli writes about Tuscany’s Bientina Lake and its fishery, linking the lake environment to population, government, and economies.
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Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice
Laura Westra and Bill Lawson’s edited collection centers on the legal, political, economic, social, and health issues surrounding environmental racism.
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Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains
Taking an environmental history perspective of the nothwestern plains, this book represents an excellent example of how to tie the human experience to the limits and opportunities presented by environment.
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Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival
Comeback Cities provides a readable presentation of certain key aspects of the field of urban studies, such as the various waves of troubles that hit many American cities in the twentieth century and the broken windows theory.